togan

See also: to gan

Finnish

Noun

togan

1. genitive singular of toga

Anagrams

• Tonga, tango, tonga

Gun

Noun

togán (plural togán lẹ) (Nigeria)

1. president

Old English

Etymology

From tō- +‎ gān. Cognate with Old High German zigān (German zergehen).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːˈɡɑːn/

Verb

tōgān

1. (of living things) to go in different directions, part, separate; go asunder
2. (of material things) to be sundered, part
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Þā cwæð sē Ælmihtiġa tō Moysen, "Āstreċe ðīne hand ofer ðā sǣ, and tōdǣl hī." And Moyses ðā slōh þǣre sǣ ofer mid his ġyrde, and sēo sǣ tōēode on twā, and eal þæt Israhela folc ēode ofer ðā sǣ bē drīum grunde, and þæt wæter stōd him on twā healfa swilċe ōðer stānweall.

     Then the Almighty said to Moses: "Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it." And then Moses struck the sea with his staff, and the sea divided in two, and all the Israelites crossed over the sea on dry ground, and the water stood in two halves like stone walls.

3. to disperse, go away, go in many directions

Conjugation

Conjugation of tōgān (irregular)

infinitive	tōgān	tōgānne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	tōgā	tōēode
second person singular	tōgǣst	tōēodest
third person singular	tōgǣþ	tōēode
plural	tōgāþ	tōēodon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	tōgā	tōēode
plural	tōgān	tōēoden
imperative
singular	tōgā
plural	tōgāþ
participle	present	past
	tōgānde	tōgān

Descendants

• Middle English: togon
  • English: togo

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “tógán”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Norse

Etymology

From toga +‎ -an.

Noun

togan f

1. drawing, pulling

Declension

Declension of togan (strong i-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	togan	toganin	toganir	toganirnar
accusative	togan	toganina	toganir	toganirnar
dative	togan	toganinni	togunum	togununum
genitive	toganar	toganarinnar	togana	togananna

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “togan”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Spanish

Verb

togan

1. only used in se togan, third-person plural present indicative of togarse