Meaning

2 senses
  1. (intransitive, obsolete)To go around.

  2. (obsolete, transitive)To go about; encompass; encircle; surround.

Origin

From Middle English umbegon, from Old English ymbgān (“to go around, go about, surround”),

From Middle English umbegon, from Old English ymbgān (“to go around, go about, surround”), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to um- + bego, or umbe- + go.

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Forms

umbegoes, umbegoing, umbewent, umbegone
Base formumbego · to umbego
3rd person singularumbegoes
Present participleumbegoing
Past simpleumbewent
Past participleumbegone

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyumbego
he, she, itumbegoes

Past simpleLesson

all personsumbewent

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave umbegone
he, she, ithas umbegone

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill umbego

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
umbego — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto