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==Principal parts== [[File:Soliloquies OE - ga (British Library Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, folio 5r).jpg|thumb|150px|'Ga,' one of the Old English forms of 'go']] The [[principal parts]] of ''go'' are ''go, went, gone''. In other respects, the modern English verb conjugates [[English verbs|regularly]]. The irregularity of the principal parts is due to their disparate origin in definitely two and possibly three distinct Indo-European roots. Unlike every other English verb except ''be'', the [[preterite]] (simple past tense) of ''go'' is not [[etymology|etymologically]] related to its [[infinitive]]. Instead, the preterite of ''go'', ''went'', descends from a variant of the preterite of ''wend'', the descendant of [[Old English language|Old English]] ''wendan'' and [[Middle English]] ''wenden''. Old English ''wendan'' (modern ''wend'') and ''gΔn'' (mod. ''go'') shared [[semantic]] similarities. The similarities are evident in the [[sentence (linguistics)|sentence]] "I'm wending my way home", which is equivalent to "I'm going home".
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