full-gangan, to emulate, to follow after: pret. sg. þonne ... sceft nytte heóld, feðer-gearwum fûs flâne full-eode, when the shaft had employment, furnished with feathers it followed the arrow, did as the arrow, [3120].
ge-gân, ge-gangan: 1) to go, to approach: inf. (w. acc.) his môdor ... gegân wolde sorhfulne sîð, [1278]; se þe gryre-sîðas gegân dorste, who dared to go the ways of terror (to go into the combat), [1463]; pret. sg. se maga geonga under his mæges scyld elne geeode, went quickly under his kinsman's shield, [2677]; pl. elne geeodon tô þäs þe ..., went quickly thither where ..., [1968]; pret. part. syððan hie tô-gädre gegân häfdon, when they (Wîglâf and the drake) had come together, [2631]; þät his aldres wäs ende gegongen, that the end of his life had come, [823]; þâ wäs endedäg gôdum gegongen, þät se gûðcyning ... swealt, [3037].—2) to obtain, to reach: inf. (w. acc.) þonne he ät gûðe gegân þenceð longsumne lof, [1536]; ic mid elne sceall gold gegangan, [2537]; gerund, näs þät ýðe ceáp tô gegangenne gumena ænigum, [2417]; pret. pl. elne geeodon ... þät se byrnwîga bûgan sceolde, [2918]; pret. part. häfde ... gegongen þät, had attained it, that ..., [894]; hord ys gesceáwod, grimme gegongen, [3086].—3) to occur, to happen: pres. sg. III. gif þät gegangeð þät ..., if that happen, that ..., [1847]; pret. sg. þät geiode ufaran dôgrum hilde-hlämmum, it happened in later times to the warriors (the Geátas), [2201]; pret. part. þâ wäs gegongen guman unfrôdum earfoðlîce þät, then it had happened to the young man in sorrowful wise that ..., [2822].
ôð-gangan, to-go thither: pret. pl. oð þät hi ôðeodon ... in Hrefnesholt, [2935].
ofer-gangan, w. acc., to go over: pret. sg. ofereode þâ äðelinga bearn steáp stân-hliðo, went over steep, rocky precipices, [1409]; pl. freoðo-wong þone forð ofereodon, [2960].
ymb-gangan, w. acc., to go around: pret. ymb-eode þâ ides Helminga duguðe and geogoðe dæl æghwylcne, went around in every part, among the superior and the inferior warriors, [621].
[gâr], st. m., spear, javelin, missile: nom. sg., [1847], [3022]; instr. sg. gâre, [1076]; blôdigan gâre, [2441]; gen. sg. gâres fliht, [1766]; nom. pl. gâras, [328]; gen. pl., 161(?).—Comp.: bon-, frum-gâr.
[gâr-cêne], adj., spear-bold: nom. sg., [1959].
[gâr-cwealm], st. m., murder, death by the spear: acc. sg. gâr-cwealm gumena, [2044].
[gâr-holt], st. n., forest of spears, i.e. crowd of spears: acc. sg., [1835].
[gâr-secg], st. m. (cf. Grimm, in Haupt l. 578), sea, ocean: acc. sg. on gâr-secg, [49], [537]; ofer gâr-secg, [515].