Etymograph

English

Go

Go comes from Old English gān ‘to go’, from Proto-West Germanic *gān ‘to go’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- ‘to leave, abandon’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰeh₁-‘to leave, abandon’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gāną‘to go, walk’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*gān‘to go’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150gān‘to go’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500gon
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2021Go

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ǵʰeh₁-‘to leave, abandon’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gāną‘to go, walk’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*gān‘to go’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150gān‘to go’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500gon
  6. Englishearliest quotation 2021Go

Earliest quotation: 2021, Jon Bodner, Learning Go: “Despite the lower priority placed on features, Go isn't…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- ‘to leave, abandon’

heritage, heir, inherit, hereditary, heredity, 20 more

through Old English gān ‘to go’

forego, 3 more

through Middle English gon

go, gone

Today it means

name A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- / Go

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