onweg gan
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *in weg gān; note that in was regularly replaced with on during the separate prehistory of Old English, specifically in the West Saxon dialect. Cognate with Dutch weggaan and German weggehen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- to go away
- c. 992, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
- Sē ēadega wer cwæþ tō his ġebrōðrum, "Gāþ onweġ! Nis þis nā ūru dǣd, ac is þāra hālgena apostola."
- The blessed man told his brothers, "Go away! This [resurrecting a dead body] isn't something we do, it's an act of the holy apostles."
- c. 992, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
Conjugation
[edit]See gān.