gone

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gŏn, IPA(key): /ɡɒn/ Rhymes: -ɒn (General Australian, archaic RP, MLE) IPA(key): /ɡɔːn/ (General American) enPR: gôn, IPA(key): /ɡɔn/ Rhymes: -ɔːn (cot–caught merger, traditional New York City) enPR: gŏn, IPA(key): /ɡɑn/ Rhymes: -ɑːn === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Verb ==== gone past participle of go ==== Adjective ==== gone (comparative further gone or farther gone or goner, superlative furthest gone or farthest gone or gonest) Away, having left. No longer existing, having passed. Used up. Broken, failed. Dead. Doomed, done for. (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline. (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in). (informal, US, dated) Excellent, wonderful; crazy. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally). (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness. Of an arrow: wide of the mark. Used with a duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; especially, pregnant. ===== Translations ===== ==== Preposition ==== gone (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time). ==== Derived terms ==== === Etymology 2 === ==== Contraction ==== gone Alternative spelling of gon / gon': clipping of gonna or going to. === References === “gone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === ENGO, Geno, Goen, NGEO, Onge, geno, geno-, geon, oneg == Fijian == === Noun === gone child == French == === Alternative forms === gône === Etymology === Apparently from Franco-Provençal gonet. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡon/ === Noun === gone m (plural gones) (Lyon dialect) kid (child) Synonyms: enfant, gosse === Further reading === “gone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== gone alternative form of gome (“man”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== gone alternative form of gon (“gone”) == Yola == === Verb === gone alternative form of goan === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 42