A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1473-1512, 1563-1572
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Gane, v.2 Pres. pple. gan(n)and. [Northern ME. gane, gan (a 1300), OE. gān, with unusual retention of final -n, perhaps partly after midl. and southern ME. gone, goon.] intr. To go.a1400 Legends of the Saints xviii. 256.
Abyd and blyse me, ore thu gane a1400 Ib. xix. 97.
But avysment fast gannand a1400 Ib. xxvi. 191.
Ganand dry-fwt one the se 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I. 183.
Tha sal gane to the monk myre … and thar tak thair feuale a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 431.
With ladyis fair in carrolling to gane a1500 Golagros and Gawane 347.
In his grippis and ye gane, He wald ourcum yow ilkane 1497 Halyb. 132.
For his costis comand and ganand c1500-c1512 Dunb. l. 8.
Ane fairar knycht nor he was ane On ground may nothair ryd nor gane 1563 Peebles B. Rec. 293.
[The council] ordanis the scuillmaster … nocht to gane to hunting … but lescence of the aldirmen 1572 Satirical Poems xxxii. 18.
Nor with our naiggis to gane to Edinburgh sone
