gan

• IPA^(key): /ɡæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

See gin

gan

1. (archaic) simple past tense of gin

Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”). More at gang.

• gang

gan (third-person singular simple present gans, present participle gannin, simple past went, past participle gone)

1. (obsolete outside Northumbria) To go.

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

• AGN, ANG, GNA, NGA, nag

From French gant.

gan

1. glove

• IPA^(key): [ɡã˦]

gan

1. to jump

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

gan

1. Alternative spelling of gaon

From Old Irish cen (“besides; without”), from Proto-Celtic *kina (“besides”); compare Middle Welsh am-gen (“otherwise”), Breton ken (“otherwise”).

• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ɡən̪ˠ/
• (stressed, Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ɡɑn̪ˠ/
• (stressed, Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡan̪ˠ/

gan (plus nominative, triggers no mutation in specific references but lenition in general references)

1. without
2. not (in conjunction with a verbal noun)

• Triggers lenition of b, c, g, m, p on unmodified nouns, e.g. gan phingin (“without a penny”). Does not trigger lenition on modified nouns, e.g. gan pingin ina phóca (“without a penny in his pocket”). In the meaning ‘not’, does not trigger lenition on either a verbal noun or on the direct object of the verbal noun, e.g. gan ceannach ‘not to buy’, gan pingin a shaothrú ‘not to earn a penny’.

• Unlike most Irish prepositions, gan governs the nominative, not the dative, and it does not form prepositional pronouns: gan an t-arán (“without the bread”), gan mé (“without me”).

• "gan" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “cen” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Entries containing “gan” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gan” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

gan

1. Rōmaji transcription of がん
2. Rōmaji transcription of ガン

gan (present stem -gê-)

1. to have sex with somebody, to fuck somebody

gan ?

1. having sex, fucking

gan

1. both, and

Used in pairs: gan jauna, gan skaista "both young and beautiful"

gan

1. Nonstandard spelling of gān.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gán.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gǎn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of gàn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Old English ġeġn.

gan

1. Alternative form of gain (“against”)

From Old English gān.

gan

1. (Early Middle English, Northern) Alternative form of gon (“to go”)

From Old English gān, ġegān.

gan

1. Alternative form of gon (“gone”)

From Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).

gān

1. to go

• anagān
• antgān
• bigān
• fargān

• Middle Dutch: gâen
  • Dutch: gaan
  • Limburgish: gaon

• “gān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”). The verb was defective in Germanic and may only have existed in the present tense.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːn/

gān

1. to go, walk

• gangan

• Middle English: gon, goo
  • English: go
  • Scots: gan

From Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).

gān

1. to go

• North Frisian: (Mooring) gunge, (Föhr-Amrum) gung
• Saterland Frisian: gunge
• West Frisian: gean

• gangan

From Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).

gān

1. to go

• German Low German: gahn
• Dutch Low Saxon: gan, gaon

• gae, ga, gang

From Northern Middle English gan, from Old English gān (“to go”). Past tense supplied by Old English wenden (“to wend”).

gan (third-person singular present gans, present participle gan, past went or wett, past participle been)

1. to go

gan

1. them (direct object)

   A bheil sibh gan creidsinn? ― Do you believe them?

• Before words beginning with b, f, m or p gam is used instead.

From English gun.

gan

1. gun

From Proto-Turkic *kiān (“blood”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaːn/

gan (definite accusative gany, plural ganlar)

1. blood

From Proto-Vietic *t-kaːn, from Old Chinese 肝 (“liver”) (SV: can).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣaːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣaːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣaːŋ˧˧]

gan

1. (anatomy) a liver
2. (figuratively) audacity; gall; balls

   to gan

   audacious

   nhát gan / gan thỏ đế

   chicken

• IPA^(key): [ɡan]

gan (plural gans)

1. (male or female) goose

• böd
• nim

• ganil

• barnig (“brant goose, brent goose”), Branta bernicla

• (North Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɡan/
  • (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɡɪn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡan/

gan

1. with
2. by (authorship)
3. (North Wales) to indicate possession

   Mae gen i wallt hir.

   I have long hair.

4. used with verbal noun to indicate an action simultaneous with that of the main verb
   • 1993, Gareth King, Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar, London: Routledge, →ISBN, p. 131:

     Aeth o gwmpas y stafell gan ofyn yr un cwestiwn i bawb.

     He went around the room asking everyone the same question.

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• IPA^(key): /ɡan/

gan

1. Soft mutation of can.

gan

1. Soft mutation of can.

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gan (definite form gan gi)

1. stranger
2. guest