Where does “goes” come from?
I need to flag a critical problem with this chain: it appears corrupted or nonsensical. The chain shows: - English "go" → Japanese "碁" (the board game go) → Chinese "圍棋" (encirclement game) → then loops back to Chinese → then jumps to Proto-Indo-European ǵʰengʰ- (repeated four times) This is impossible. Japanese 碁 comes from Chinese 圍棋, not the other way around. More fundamentally, there is no etymological connection between the English verb "go" and the board game "go" or Proto-Indo-European. These are completely separate words. **I cannot write an accurate one-sentence summary because the etymology chain itself is invalid.** Could you provide: 1. Clarification on what word is actually being traced? 2. A corrected chain? If
goes (English): Third-person singular simple present indicative...
Definitions
- Third-person singular simple present indicative...
Ancestry of “goes”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | Goes |  — famously held by |