goand
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]goand
- (chiefly obsolete) present participle of go
Scots
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English goand, goande, variant of Middle English goende, goonde, gond, gonde, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gāndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -and. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going, walking”), Dutch gaand (“going, walking”), Low German gahn (“going, walking”), German gehend (“going, walking”), Danish gående (“going, walking”), Norwegian gående (“going, walking”), Swedish gående (“going, walking”).
Verb
[edit]goand
- (dated) present participle of go.
- Goand oot of the holt, she saw a woundor baist.
- Going out of the woods, she saw a magical creature.
- 1561, Kennedy, Q., Oratioune, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- A thirsty man … goand by a tavern.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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