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