Editing Go (verb) (section)

===Origin of ''went''===
''Went'', the modern past tense of ''go'', was originally the preterite form of Middle English ''wenden'' 'to turn, direct; depart' (modern English ''wend''), from Old English ''wendan'' (past ''wende'', ''ġewend''), itself from Proto-Germanic *''wandijaną'' 'to turn' ([[transitive verb|transitive]]). Cognates include West Frisian ''weine'', Dutch, Low German, German ''wenden'', Yiddish ווענדן (''vendn''), Swedish ''vända'', Danish, Norwegian ''vende'', and Gothic ''wandjan''. The original forms of the ME past tense were ''wende'', ''wended'' (our modern form), and past participle ''wend'', but variant ''wente'' developed from about 1200.<ref>Robert K. Barnhart, ''Chambers Dictionary of Etymology'', s.v. "wend" (Chambers Harrap, [2008], c1988), 1228.</ref> By ''ca''. 1500, ''wended'' had prevailed in the transitive senses, whereas ''wente'', restricted to intransitive senses, rivalled and replaced ''go'''s older past tense, ''yede''/''yode''.<ref>C.T. Onions, ''Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology'', s.v. "wend" (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996), 1000.</ref> 

Proto-Germanic *''wandijaną'' is a [[causative]] derivative of *''windaną'' 'to wind, wrap', from which the modern English verb ''wind'' developed. Cognates include West Frisian ''wine'', Dutch, Low German, German ''winden'', Swedish ''vinda'', Danish and Norwegian ''vinde'', and Gothic -''windan'' (in ''biwindan'' 'to wind around, wrap'). PGmc *''windaną'' comes from Proto-Indo-European *''{{PIE|wendʰ-}}'' 'to wind, twist', which also gave [[Umbrian language|Umbrian]] pre''uenda'' 'turn!' (imperative), [[Tocharian languages|Tocharian]] A/B ''wänt''/''wänträ'' 'covers, envelops', [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ([[Hesychius of Alexandria|Hesychius]]) ''áthras'' 'wagon', [[Armenian language|Armenian]] ''gind'' 'ring', and [[Sanskrit]] ''vandhúra'' 'carriage framework'.