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ge-gangan

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ge-gangan, -gongan; pp. -gangen, -gongen.
to go, happen, take place, befal, to fall to one's share, to come in; ire, evenire, accidere
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  • Ne mágon hí ofer gemǽre máre gegangan

    non transgredientur terminum,

    • Ps. Th. 103, 9
    • .
  • Ful oft ðæt gegongeþ

    full oft it happens,

    • Exon. 87 a; Th. 327, 9
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    • Vy. 1 : 117 a; Th. 451, 3
    • ;
    • Dóm. 98
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  • Ðá wæs gegongen gumum unfródum, ðæt . . .

    then it had befallen the youthful man, that . . . ,

    • Beo. Th. 5634
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    • B. 2821
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  • Ealles ðæs andlyfenes ðe him gegonge

    of all the livelihood which comes in to them,

    • Bd. 1, 27; S. 489, 6
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to exercise, effect, accomplish; exercere, perficere, efficere
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  • Ic ðíne bebodu bealde gegange

    exercebor in mandatis tuis,

    • Ps. Th. 118, 78
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  • He hæfde elne gegongen, ðæt . . .

    he had effected by his valour, that . . . ,

    • Beo. Th. 1791
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    • B, 893
    • .
to go against with hostile intention, to pass over, overcome, subdue, conquer, obtain, acquire; aggredi, transgredi, superare, subigere, oblinere, adipisci, possidere
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  • Gif fríman edor gegangeþ

    if a freeman pass over a fence,

    • L. Ethb. 29; Th. i. 10, 3
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  • Hí þohton Italia ealle gegongan

    they thought to conquer all Italy,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 1, 24
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    • Met. 1, 12
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  • Ic mid elne sceal gold gegangan

    I shall with valour obtain the gold,

    • Beo. Th. 5065
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    • B. 2036 : 6162
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    • B. 3085
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    • Ps. Th. 78, 12
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v. gán.
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v.  ge-gongan.
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