gon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "gon"

Translingual

Etymology 1

Clipping of English Gondi, from Gondi గోండి (gōṇḍī).

Symbol

gon

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Gondi.

Etymology 2

Symbol

gon

1. (ISO symbol) gradian

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of gonna. Compare Middle English gon, dialectal gan, Dutch gaan.

Pronunciation

• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ɡən/
• (stressed) IPA^(key): /ɡoʊn/, /ɡɔn/, [ɡõ(ʊ)]

• Audio (US):

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Contraction

gon

2. (informal) Alternative form of gonna.

   I’m gon be there around four.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). More in Wikipedia at gradian § History and name.

Noun

gon (plural gons)

2. (geometry, trigonometry) One hundredth of a right angle: a gradian.

Related terms

• goniometry and other derivatives of gonio-

Translations

gradian

• Finnish: gooni (fi)

Etymology 3

Clipping.

Noun

gon (plural gons)

1. (rail transport) Abbreviation of gondola car.

Anagrams

• NGO, Ngo, Ong, nog

Breton

Noun

gon

1. soft mutation of kon

Finnish

Noun

gon

1. genitive singular of go

Haitian Creole

Contraction

gon

1. contraction of gen +‎ yon

Japanese

Romanization

gon

1. Rōmaji transcription of ごん

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English gān, from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, compare German gehen. Past tense supplied by Old English wendan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijaną, or a suppletive stem yed-, yod-, from Old English ēod-.

For the spelling geen in the representation of Northern Middle English in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale, see hom (“home”).

Alternative forms

• goo, goon, go
• gan, ga (Northern); geen (pseudo-Northern)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ̝ːn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːn
• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːn/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA^(key): /ɡaː/ (Northern)

Verb

gon

2. to go
   • c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus .xx᷒. ⁊ prım᷒ de Dobeſt”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 124, recto; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:

     Heuy chered I yede. and elenge in herte / I ne wıſte wher to ete. ne at what place

     I travelled grave-faced and with a gloomy heart; / I didn't know where or at what point to eat.

Conjugation

Conjugation of gon (irregular, suppletive)

infinitive	(to) gon, go
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	go	yede, wente
2nd-person singular	gost, gest	yedest, wentest
3rd-person singular	goth, geth	yede, wente
subjunctive singular	go
imperative singular		—
plural1	gon, go	yeden, yede, wenten, wente
imperative plural	goth, go	—
participles	goynge, gonde	gon, go, ygon, ygo

¹ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: go
• Geordie: gan
• Middle Scots: go, goe, gone
  • Scots: gan, gae, gang, ging, gyang
• Yola: goe, go, gow

References

• “gōn, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Smith, Jeremy J. (1994), “The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England, and Some Forms in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎^[1], volume 95, number 4, Helsinki: Modern Language Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 434.

Etymology 2

From Old English gān, ġegān, past participle of gān (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gānaz, past participle of *gāną (“to go”); equivalent to gon +‎ -en.

Alternative forms

• gone, igon, gan, ȝegan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔːn/
• (Early Middle English, Northern) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Verb

gon

2. past participle of gon (“to go”)

Descendants

• English: gone
• Geordie: gyen
• Scots: gane
• Yola: gome

Etymology 3

From Lady Gunilda; a name for a crossbow. More at English gun.

Noun

gon

1. alternative form of gunne

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gònъ. Compare Czech hon, Russian гон (gon), and Silesian gōn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: gon

Noun

gon m inan

1. (hunting) chase, pursuit

   Synonyms: gonitwa, gońba, pogoń

2. (hunting) barking of hounds during a hunt
3. mating season of fallow deer and chamois

   Hypernym: okres godowy

4. (obsolete) hunt, hunting

   Synonyms: łów, polowanie

Declension

Declension of gon

	singular	plural
nominative	gon	gony
genitive	gonu	gonów
dative	gonowi	gonom
accusative	gon	gony
instrumental	gonem	gonami
locative	gonie	gonach
vocative	gonie	gony

Related terms

adjectives

• gończy

nouns

• goniec

verbs

• ganiać impf
• gnać impf
• gonić impf

Further reading

• gon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gonô, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, kill”).

Verb

gon (past ghon, future gonaidh, verbal noun gonadh, past participle gonte)

1. hurt, prick, wound

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English gun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡon/

Noun

gon

1. gun

Teojomulco Chatino

Etymology

Cognate with Tataltepec Chatino ncu̱ (“tortoise”), Western Highland Chatino nkuun⁴ (“tortoise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nkõ/, [ŋɡõ]

Noun

gon

1. armadillo

References

• Sullivant, J. Ryan (October 2016), “Appendix: Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino”, in International Journal of American Linguistics‎^[2], page [5]