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 | — |