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The suppletive past tense of the English verb go, went, was originally the past tense (and past participle) of the verb wend < Old English wendan. The Old English past tense of gān 'to go' was eōde (link). This was also a case of paradigmatic suppletion. This other root for 'to go' was related to the Latin eō, īre. To make matter curiouser, the PIE root for go *ghē- (link) yields Sanskrit √ gam 'to go', gacchati 's/he goes', but Latin veniō and Greek βαινω (bainō) both with the meaning come.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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