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goin

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See also: Goin, go in, and goin'

English

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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goin

  1. Pronunciation spelling of going.
    • 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870[1]:
      I see they was goin, so I said:-- "My week-minded and misgided femails, hold your hosses a minnit, until an old statesman, who has served his country for 4 yeer as Gustise of the Peece, says a few remarks to you."
    • 1905, George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot[2]:
      Youre goin on fit to raise the street." "
    • 1994 April 29, Michael Dolan, “Nixon in Hell”, in Chicago Reader[3]:
      Now I got nothing goin on but a fockin ping-pong tournament with Kurt Cobain, who fockin cheats, man, like it's gonna do him any fockin good.

Anagrams

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Finnish

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Noun

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goin

  1. instructive plural of go

Anagrams

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Irish

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Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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goin f (genitive singular goine, nominative plural goine)

  1. bit, scrap
Declension
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Declension of goin (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative goin goine
vocative a ghoin a ghoine
genitive goine goine
dative goin goine
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ghoin na goine
genitive na goine na ngoine
dative leis an ngoin
don ghoin
leis na goine

Etymology 2

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From Middle Irish gonaid, from Old Irish gonaid, from Proto-Celtic *gʷaneti, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-.

Verb

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goin (present analytic goineann, future analytic goinfidh, verbal noun goineadh, past participle gointe)

  1. wound, stab, sting, hurt
    Synonyms: cneáigh, créachtaigh, leon
  2. (literary) mortally wound, slay
  3. (card games) jink, win (a game) outright
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Noun

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goin f (genitive singular gona, nominative plural gonta)

  1. wound
    Synonyms: cneá, créacht
  2. stab, sting, hurt
Declension
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Declension of goin (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative goin gonta
vocative a ghoin a ghonta
genitive gona gonta
dative goin gonta
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an ghoin na gonta
genitive na gona na ngonta
dative leis an ngoin
don ghoin
leis na gonta
Derived terms
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of goin
radical lenition eclipsis
goin ghoin ngoin

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Japanese

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Romanization

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goin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ごいん