Editing Go (verb) (section)

===Origin of ''ēode''===
[[Old English]] did not use any variation of ''went'' for the general [[preterite]] of ''go''; instead, the word ''ēode'' (variant ''ġeēode'') was used, which lingered on as the now obsolete ''yede'', ''yode'' and ''yead''.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language |last=Skeat |first=Walter W. |publisher=Forgotten Books |isbn=978-1-4400-5722-9 |page=193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRGhnkZq3HQC&q=eode&pg=PA1933}}</ref> 

Old English ''ēode'' 'he went' (plural ''ēodon'') is made up of a [[defective verb|defective]] preterite base ''ēo''- and the weak dental suffix -''de'' common in most modern English past tense forms (cf. ''ache'' : ''ached''). The base ''ēo''- and its [[Gothic language|Gothic]] counterpart ''iddja'' (pl. ''iddjedun'') show the following development:
* [[Proto-Indo-European|PIE]] [[Proto-Indo-European verbs|perfect]] singular *''{{PIE|ye-yóh₂-}}'' (singular) → Proto-Germanic *''ijō-dē'' → *''eōdæ'' → ''ēode''
* [[Proto-Indo-European|PIE]] perfect plural *''{{PIE|ye-yh₂-}}'' (plural) → *''jejj''- ([[Holtzmann's law]]) → *''jijj-'' ([[i-mutation]]) → Proto-Germanic *''ijjēdun''- → Gothic ''iddjēdun''.<ref>Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, "Germanic Verschärfung: Tying Up Loose Ends", ''Selected Papers on Indo-European Linguistics'' (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 1999), 382.</ref><ref>An alternate derivation has Gothic ''iddja'' ← *''ijjō'' ← PIE *''{{PIE|h₁eh₁yóh₂e}}''; which means OE ''ēo-'' ← PGmc *''ijjō-''; see N. E. Collinge, "Holtzmann's Law", ''The Laws of Indo-European'', (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, [2009], c1985), 96, citing F.O. Lindeman, "Gotisch iddja und altenglisch ēode", ''Indogermanische Forschungen'', 72 (1967), 275-286.</ref>

Both forms are derived from the PIE root *''{{PIE|h₁y-éh₂-}}'' (late *''{{PIE|yeh₂-}}'') based on close matches with past tense forms of [[Sanskrit]] ''yā́ti'' 'he goes, travels' (cf. [[imperfect]] ''áyāt'', [[perfect (grammar)|perfect]] ''yayáu'', and [[Sanskrit_verbs#Aorist_system|aorist]] ''áyāsam''). The root is regarded as an iterative-intensive derivative of the more common *''{{PIE|h₁ey-}}'' 'to go' (present *''{{PIE|h₁éyti}}'').<ref>J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture'', s.v. "go" (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), 228.</ref> One reflex of *''{{PIE|h₁ey-}}'' is [[Latin]] ''īre'' 'to go' (present ''eō'' 'I go') which gave many English words such as amb''ition'', ex''it'', intro''it'', issue, preter''ite'', and so forth. It is also found in the [[Slavic languages]] as ''iti'' and similar forms.