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went¹

  • /wɛnt/ UK
  • /wɛnt/ US
  • [wɛnʔ(t̚)] US
  • /wɪnt/ pin pen merger
  • /went/ Australia, New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɛnt

Where it comes from

Originally the simple past and past participle of wend, but now the past of go due to suppletion.

While wend is akin to wind, compare typologically Russian смота́ться (smotátʹsja), сма́тываться (smátyvatʹsja), умота́ть (umotátʹ), ума́тывать (umátyvatʹ) (akin to мота́ть (motátʹ)).

verb

  1. past simple past of go
  2. nonstandard, participle, past past participle of go When they arrived whither they were bent, / He made as if he farther would have went. / But they conſtrain'd him, ſaying, Night is near; / Abide with us; and ſo he tarry'd there.
  3. archaic, participle, past simple past and past participle of wend

noun wents

  1. obsolete A course; a way, a path; a journey. But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went.

    Similar: gaed, eode, yead, yede, yode, gone, wended

Went²

Where it comes from

Topographic surname, from Middle English went (“crossroad, passage”).

proper noun Wents

  1. countable, uncountable A surname from Middle English.
  2. countable, uncountable The River Went, a river in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Don. It forms the boundary between South Yorkshire and both North Yorkshire and the East Riding in its lower reaches.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: got, ran, undertook, grew, took, withdrew, rode, blew, arose, underwent, broke, gave, became, began, did, chose

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@misc{went_2026,
  title = {went},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/went},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}