![]() Old English did not use any variation of went for the general preterite of go instead, the word ēode (variant ġeēode) was used, which lingered on as the now obsolete yede, yode and yead. Cognates in the Germanic languages include West Frisian gean, Dutch gaan, Low German gahn, German gehen, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish gå, Crimean Gothic geen. Go descends from Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān, from Proto-Germanic * gāną, from Proto-Indo-European (PIE) * ǵʰēh₁- 'to go, leave'. The similarities are evident in the sentence "I'm wending my way home", which is equivalent to "I'm going home". Old English wendan (modern wend) and gān (mod. Instead, the preterite of go, went, descends from a variant of the preterite of wend, the descendant of Old English wendan and Middle English wenden. Unlike every other English verb except be, the preterite (simple past tense) of go is not etymologically related to its infinitive. The irregularity of the principal parts is due to their disparate origin in definitely two and possibly three distinct Indo-European roots. ![]() In other respects, the modern English verb conjugates regularly. The principal parts of go are go, went, gone. ![]()
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