"onweg gan" meaning in Old English

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Verb

IPA: /onˈwej ˌɡɑːn/ Forms: onweġ gān [canonical]
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *in weg gān; note that in was regularly replaced with on during the separate prehistory of Old English, specifically in the West Saxon dialect. Cognate with Dutch weggaan and German weggehen. Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*in weg gān}} Proto-West Germanic *in weg gān, {{cog|nl|weggaan}} Dutch weggaan, {{cog|de|weggehen}} German weggehen Head templates: {{ang-verb|head=onweġ gān}} onweġ gān
  1. to go away
    Sense id: en-onweg_gan-ang-verb-rR92VN0d Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "go awey"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: go awey",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: go awey"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "go away"
          },
          "expansion": "English: go away",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: go away"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*in weg gān"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *in weg gān",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "weggaan"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch weggaan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "weggehen"
      },
      "expansion": "German weggehen",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *in weg gān; note that in was regularly replaced with on during the separate prehistory of Old English, specifically in the West Saxon dialect. Cognate with Dutch weggaan and German weggehen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "onweġ gān",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "head": "onweġ gān"
      },
      "expansion": "onweġ gān",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The blessed man told his brothers, \"Go away! This [resurrecting a dead body] isn't something we do, it's an act of the holy apostles.\"",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"St. Benedict, Abbot\"\nSē ēadega wer cwæþ tō his ġebrōðrum, \"Gāþ onweġ! Nis þis nā ūru dǣd, ac is þāra hālgena apostola.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to go away"
      ],
      "id": "en-onweg_gan-ang-verb-rR92VN0d",
      "links": [
        [
          "go away",
          "go away"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/onˈwej ˌɡɑːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "onweg gan"
}
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        {
          "args": {
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          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: go awey",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: go awey"
    },
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      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "go away"
          },
          "expansion": "English: go away",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: go away"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*in weg gān"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *in weg gān",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "weggaan"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch weggaan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "weggehen"
      },
      "expansion": "German weggehen",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *in weg gān; note that in was regularly replaced with on during the separate prehistory of Old English, specifically in the West Saxon dialect. Cognate with Dutch weggaan and German weggehen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "onweġ gān",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "onweġ gān"
      },
      "expansion": "onweġ gān",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old English lemmas",
        "Old English multiword terms",
        "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "Old English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The blessed man told his brothers, \"Go away! This [resurrecting a dead body] isn't something we do, it's an act of the holy apostles.\"",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"St. Benedict, Abbot\"\nSē ēadega wer cwæþ tō his ġebrōðrum, \"Gāþ onweġ! Nis þis nā ūru dǣd, ac is þāra hālgena apostola.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to go away"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "go away",
          "go away"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/onˈwej ˌɡɑːn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "onweg gan"
}

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