begone

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Univerbation of be +‎ gone. Compare English beware.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /biːˈɡɒn/, /bɪˈɡɒn/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒn

Interjection edit

begone

(archaic) Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 157, column 1:
  Fairies be gone, and be alwaies away.
- 1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man:
  "Begone! move quickly! if quickly you can, you that shine forth into sight in moist times like the worm."

Derived terms edit

bego (verb)

Etymology 2 edit

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /bəˈɡɒn/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒn

Verb edit

begone

past participle of bego

Derived terms edit

woe-begone, woebegone

Translations edit

expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away

Azerbaijani: bas bayıra, rədd ol
Finnish: kaikkoa
French: ouste (fr)
Hungarian: tűnj el, tűnj a szemem elől
Italian: vattene
Japanese: 去ね (ine)
Russian: уходи́ (uxodí) (sg.), уходи́те (uxodíte) (pl. or formal), прочь (ru) (pročʹ), вон (ru) (von)
Scottish Gaelic: falbh, bi air d' fhalbh, thoir ort
Swedish: försvinn (sv)

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Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} махай се (mahaj se)

Anagrams edit

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