Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word gan. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in gan.
Definitions and meaning of gan
gan
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡæn/
Rhymes: -æn
Etymology 1
Perhaps connected with Middle Englishgane, or possibly from Welshgeneu, Cornishganau(“mouth”).
Alternative forms
ganns, gans
Noun
gan (uncountable)
(obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) Mouth.
1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter III:[2]
White thy fambles, red thy gan
And thy quarrons dainty is.
Couch a hogshead with me then.
In the darkmans clip and kiss.
Etymology 2
Verb
gan
(archaic)simple past tense of gin
Etymology 3
Probably a variant of gang, from Middle Englishgangen, from Old Englishgangan(“to step; walk; go”).
Alternative forms
gang
Verb
gan (third-person singular simple presentgans, present participlegannin, simple pastwent, past participlegone)
(obsolete outside Northumbria) To go.
References
Further reading
The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [3]
Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[4]
A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [5]
Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Anagrams
AGN, ANG, GNA, NGA, nag
Antillean Creole
Etymology
From Frenchgant.
Noun
gan
glove
Bambara
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ɡã˦]
Verb
gan
to jump
References
2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Dutch Low Saxon
Verb
gan
Alternative spelling of gaon
Garo
Etymology
Borrowed from Bengaliগান(gan).
Noun
gan
song
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irishcen(“besides; without”), from Proto-Celtic*kina(“on this side of”); compare Middle Welsham-gen(“otherwise”), Bretonken(“otherwise”).
gan (plus nominative, triggers no mutation in specific references but lenition in general references)
without
not (in conjunction with a verbal noun)
Usage notes
In standardised Irish, triggers lenition (except of d, s, t) of unmodified nouns, e.g. gan phingin(“without a penny”). Does not trigger lenition of modified nouns, e.g. gan pingin ina phóca(“without a penny in his pocket”). In the meaning ‘not’, does not trigger lenition of either a verbal noun or on the direct object of the verbal noun, e.g. gan ceannach ("not to buy"), gan pingin a shaothrú ("not to earn a penny").
Derived terms
Further reading
"gan" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Entries containing “gan” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “gan” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Japanese
Romanization
gan
Rōmaji transcription of がん
Rōmaji transcription of ガン
Latvian
Conjunction
gan
both, and
Usage notes
Used in pairs: gan jauna, gan skaista "both young and beautiful"
Mandarin
Romanization
gan
Nonstandard spelling of gān.
Nonstandard spelling of gán.
Nonstandard spelling of gǎn.
Nonstandard spelling of gàn.
Usage notes
English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old Englishġeġn.
Preposition
gan
Alternative form of gain(“against”)
Etymology 2
From Old Englishgān.
Verb
gan
(Early Middle English, Northern)Alternative form of gon(“to go”)
Etymology 3
From Old Englishgān, ġegān.
Verb
gan
Alternative form of gon(“gone”)
Northern Kurdish
Verb
gan (present stem-gê-)
to have sexual intercourse with somebody, to fuck somebody
Noun
gan?
having sex, fucking
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic*gāną, from Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰeh₁-(“to leave”).
Verb
gān
to go
Inflection
Derived terms
anagān
antgān
bigān
fargān
Descendants
Middle Dutch: gâen
Dutch: gaan
Afrikaans: gaan
Limburgish: gaon
Further reading
“gān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*gān, from Proto-Germanic*gāną, from Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰeh₁-(“to leave”). The verb was defective in Germanic and may only have existed in the present tense.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡɑːn/
Verb
gān
to go
to walk
late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Middle English: gon, gan, ga
English: go
Northumbrian: gan
Scots: gan, gae, ga, gang
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic*gāną, from Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰeh₁-(“to leave”).
Verb
gān
to go
Inflection
Descendants
Saterland Frisian: geen(simple past, past participle of gunge)
West Frisian: gean
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
gangan
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*gān.
Verb
gān
to go
Conjugation
Descendants
Middle Low German: gân
Dutch Low Saxon: gan, gaon
German Low German: gahn
Plautdietsch: gone
Scots
Alternative forms
gae, ga, gang
Etymology
From Northern Middle Englishgan, from Old Englishgān(“to go”). Past tense supplied by Old Englishwenden(“to wend”).
Verb
gan (third-person singular presentgans, present participlegan, pastwentorwett, past participlebeen)
to go
Scottish Gaelic
Pronoun
gan
them (direct object)
Usage notes
Before words beginning with b, f, m or p gam is used instead.
Related terms
Ternate
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈɡan]
Noun
gan
louse
References
Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 31
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From Englishgun.
Noun
gan
gun
Turkmen
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic*kiān(“blood”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡaːn/
Noun
gan (definite accusativegany, pluralganlar)
blood
Declension
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic*t-kaːn, from Old Chinese肝 (OC*s.kˤa[r]) (SV: can). Cognate with Chut [Rục] təkaːn¹ ("bold").
Displaced native lòm, now only found in the compound đỏ lòm.