different between gon vs gom

Translingual

Symbol

gon

1. (ISO symbol) gradian

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of gonna. Compare Middle English gon, dialectal gan, Dutch gaan.

Contraction

gon

1. (US, dialectal) Alternative form of gonna

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (g?nía, “angle”)

Noun

gon (plural gons)

1. (geometry, trigonometry) One hundredth of a right angle; a gradian.

Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping.

Noun

gon (plural gons)

1. (rail transport) Abbreviation of gondola car.

Anagrams

• NGO, Ngo, Ong, nog

Breton

Noun

gon

1. Soft mutation of kon.

Finnish

Noun

gon

1. Genitive singular form of go.

Japanese

Romanization

gon

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English g?n, from Proto-West Germanic *g?n, from Proto-Germanic *g?n?, compare German gehen. Past tense supplied by Old English wendan, from Proto-Germanic *wandijan?, or a suppletive stem yed-, yod-, from Old English ?od-.

Alternative forms

• (Northern ME) gan, ga
• goo, goon, go

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n/
• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /???n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

gon

2. to go

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: go
  • Northumbrian: gan
• Scots: gan, gae, ga, gang
• Yola: goe

References

• “g?n, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English g?n, ?eg?n, past participle of g?n (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *g?naz, past participle of *g?n? (“to go”); equivalent to gon +? -en.

Alternative forms

• gone, igon, gan, ?egan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n/
• (Early ME, Northern ME) IPA^(key): /???n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

gon

2. past participle of gon (“to go”)

Descendants

• English: gone
• Scots: gane
• Yola: ee-go

Etymology 3

From Lady Gunilda; a name for a crossbow. More at English gun.

Noun

gon

1. Alternative form of gunne

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gonô, from Proto-Indo-European *g??en- (“to strike, kill”).

Verb

gon (past ghon, future gonaidh, verbal noun gonadh, past participle gonte)

1. hurt, prick, wound

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English gun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?on/

Noun

gon

1. gun

Teojomulco Chatino

Etymology

Cognate with Tataltepec Chatino ncu? (“tortoise”), Western Highland Chatino nkuun? (“tortoise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nkõ/, [??õ]

Noun

gon

1. armadillo

References

• Sullivant, J. Ryan (October 2016) , “Appendix: Reintroducing Teojomulco Chatino”, in International Journal of American Linguistics?^[1], page [5]

English

Etymology 1

From Irish gámaí (“booby, dolt”).

Alternative forms

• gawm

Noun

gom (plural goms)

1. (Ireland) A foolish person.
   • 1917, Mary Brigid Pearse, The Murphys of Ballystack (Dublin : M.H. Gill) p.139:

     “ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ”

   • 1926, Seán O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars, Act II, 173:

     Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom.

   • 2013, Outrageous Pride ?ISBN

     He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed […]

   • 2014, Martha Long, Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy ?ISBN:

     "Yeah! She's a right gom! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"

Etymology 2

Variant of gum.

Noun

gom (plural goms)

1. (Appalachia) Alternative form of gum
   • 1911, Why moles have hands, in The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder, page 206:

     ev'y toof in his jaws gwine come bustin' thu his goms widout nair' a ache er a pain ter let him know dey's dar.

Etymology 3

Minced oath.

Interjection

gom

1. (obsolete, euphemistic) God!
   • 1804, an entry in the Theatrical Journal of The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 45, page 373:

     There's a Lad, too, from York— but tho' he's a strange elf, / By gom! I respect him as much as myself,

   • 1829, The Humours of Vauxhall, in The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, volume 2, page 164:

     O dang it, Roger, did 'e ever see sich a sight afore? My gom! what a glorious lumination like! My goles! what a mort of gentry-folk!

   • 1861, The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, volumes 9-10, page 36:

     "l'll drink as much cider as you 'plase, but by gom, sir, you munna come here to bork the trees over again."

   • 1908, Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley, H. M. I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H. M. Inspectors of Schools, page 224:

     Robert took courage : "Eh, by gom, no. It wasn't hereabouts."

Anagrams

• GMO, O. M. G., O.M.G., OMG, mog, omg

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gom, from Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/

Noun

gom (uncountable)

1. Gum, a viscous or sticky substance exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• gum

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gomme, from Old French gomme, from Late Latin gumma, from earlier gummi, cummi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/
• Hyphenation: gom
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

gom m (plural gommen, diminutive gommetje n)

1. gum, various viscous or sticky substances exuded by certain plants or produced synthetically.
2. an object made from gum
3. Dated spelling of gum (“eraser”).

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gom
• ? Indonesian: gom
• ? Japanese: ??

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gom

1. first-person singular present indicative of gommen
2. imperative of gommen

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English guma.

Noun

gom

1. Alternative form of gome (“man”)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gaumr.

Noun

gom

1. Alternative form of gome (“regard”)

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman gome.

Noun

gom

1. Alternative form of gumme

Rohingya

Verb

gom

1. good

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *kom ~ *koom (“to grow, to increase”); cognate with Bahnar ak?m/ak?m (“to meet together, to gather things”), Mon ???? (k?m, “to assemble, come together”) and Khmer ?????? (c?ngkaom, “bunch”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??m??]

Verb

gom • (?)

1. to gather together

Derived terms

Noun

gom

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Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish gámaí.

Noun

gom

1. idiot, fool

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN