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goan
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English
Verb
goan
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West Flemish
Verb
goan
- to go
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Pronunciation
Verb
goan
- present participle of goe
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Goan to glaade.
- Sunsetting.
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:
- "Murreen leam, kish am." Ich aam goan maake mee will.
- To my grief, I am a big old sow. I am going to make my will,
Derived terms
- goath (“going to”)
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
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