on hand gan
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *ana handų gāną, literally “to go into [someone's] hand” (= "hands"). Cognate with Old Norse ganga á hǫnd, cf. Old English gangan.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
- to surrender or give oneself up (+ dative = to someone)
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
- Siþþan him ēodon on hand fēowertiġ burga, and six and twēntiġ hē ġeēode mid ġefeohte.
- After that, 40 towns surrendered to him, and he conquered 26 by fighting.
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Sume for hungre heora fēondum on hand ēodon and ēcne þēodōm ġehēton.
- Some of them surrendered to their enemies out of hunger and promised to be their slaves forever.
- c. 935, King Æthelstan's sixth law code
- Ne slēa man nānne ġingran mann þonne fiftīenewinterne mann, būtan hē hine werian wille oþþe flēo and on hand gān nylle.
- No one should be executed who is younger than a fifteen-year-old, unless they resist arrest or try to escape and refuse to give themselves up.
- late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Conjugation[edit]
See the conjugation for gān.