Went - Wiktionary

See also: Went

English

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Etymology

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Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion.

While wend is akin to wind, compare typologically Russian смота́ться (smotátʹsja), сма́тываться (smátyvatʹsja), умота́ть (umotátʹ), ума́тывать (umátyvatʹ) (akin to мота́ть (motátʹ)).

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA(key): /wɛnt/

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• (US) IPA(key): /wɛnt/, [wɛnʔ(t̚)]

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  • (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /wɪnt/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /went/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

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went

1. simple past of go
2. (nonstandard) past participle of go
   • 1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 7, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church‎[1], page 22:When they arrived whither they were bent, / He made as if he farther would have went. / But they conſtrain'd him, ſaying, Night is near; / Abide with us; and ſo he tarry'd there.
   • 1851, Abel F. Fitch, Report of the Great Conspiracy Case […] ‎[2], Advertiser and Free Press, page 145:I went from Filley's to Fitch's house, to talk of oxen; no one went with me; might have went to the mill; don,t remember whether I rode back to Laycock's or not to dinner.
   • 2010 June 14, Douglas Nix, Al-Qaeda Hunter‎[3], Xlibris, →ISBN, page 22:I just sat around and watched, then decided to go see Safid; we planned to study that day, but first we had a good ride around town. We must have went fifteen miles, and Safid was ready to sit and study; we went to a little park and started working.
3. (archaic) simple past and past participle of wend

Derived terms

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• wentest, wenteth (both archaic)

Noun

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went (plural wents)

1. (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went.

Synonyms

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• (simple past): gaed, eode, yead, yede, yode
• (past participle): gone
• (wend): wended

Anagrams

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• newt, twen

Breton

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Noun

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went

1. soft mutation of gwent

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

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went

1. inflection of wennen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

Old English

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /went/

Verb

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went

1. third-person singular present indicative of wendan

Scots

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Verb

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went

1. simple past tense of gan