different between gone vs ygone

English

Etymology

From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ?egan, from Old English g?n, ?eg?n, from Proto-Germanic *g?naz (“gone”), past participle of *g?n? (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), Dutch gegaan (“gone”) and German gegangen (“gone”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: g?n, IPA^(key): /??n/,
• (Received Pronunciation, dated) enPR: gôn, IPA^(key): /???n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /???n/
• Rhymes: -??n
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??n/, enPR: gôn
• (General American) (cot–caught merger, traditional New York City) IPA^(key): /??n/, enPR: g?n

• Rhymes: -??n

Verb

gone

1. past participle of go
2. Alternative spelling of gon or gon': short for gonna, going to.

Adjective

gone (not comparable)

1. Away, having left.

   Are they gone already?

2. No longer existing, having passed.

   The days of my youth are gone.

   All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.

3. Used up.

   I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.

4. Dead.
5. Doomed, done for.

   Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.

6. (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 41:

     ...she put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone...

   Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.

7. (slang) Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.

   He's totally gone on her.

8. (informal, US, dated) Excellent; wonderful.

   It was a group of real gone cats.

9. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 491:

     Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.

10. (US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
11. Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

Translations

Preposition

gone

1. (Britain, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).

   You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

Derived terms

• far gone
• Gonesville
• goner
• yesterday is gone

References

• gone at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ENGO, Geno, Goen, NGEO, Onge, geno, geno-, geon, oneg

Fijian

Noun

gone

1. child

French

Alternative forms

• gône

Etymology

Apparently from Franco-Provençal gonet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?on/

Noun

gone m (plural gones)

1. (Lyon dialect) kid (child)

   Synonyms: enfant, gosse

Further reading

• “gone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English guma.

Noun

gone

1. Alternative form of gome (“man”)

Etymology 2

From Old English g?n, ?eg?n.

Verb

gone

1. Alternative form of gon (“gone”)

Plautdietsch

Verb

gone (3rd person present jeit, past jinkj, past participle jegone)

1. to walk
2. to go, to move
3. to proceed
4. (baking, of dough) to rise

English

Verb

ygone

1. (obsolete) past participle of go

Anagrams

• Yonge, goney