gone
/ɡɒn/ · verb
Meaning
- past participle of go
- Away, having left.
- No longer existing, having passed.
- Used up.
- Broken, failed.
- Dead.
- Doomed, done for.
- Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
- Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
- Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
- Ago (used post-positionally).
- Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
- Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
- Past, after, later than (a time).
- Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
- gegaan(Dutch)→
- gahn(Low German)→
- gien(fy)→
- gane(Scots)→
- *gānaz(gem-pro)→
- gān(ang)→
- gon(Middle English)→
- gone (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, cog, cog, cog, cog
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