gång

Swedish

/ɡɔŋ/

noun
Definitions
  • walk, path, trail; a maintained, usually quite narrow path on which to walk, which in general does not follow next to a road. (Compare trottoar).
  • (uncountable) manner of walk, gait
  • (sports) race walking
  • (uncountable) the continuous running of something, such as a machinery or time.
  • times; the number of times something happens

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish ganger (movement forward, act of walking, path) inherited from Old Norse gangr (course, walk, pace) inherited from Proto-Germanic *gangaz (warp, passage, way) root from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (step, walk, stride).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ǵʰengʰ-

Gloss

step, walk, stride

Concept
Semantic Field

The house

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

歩

Emoji
🪜

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