Dictionaries › Old English

undergan

Pronunciation: /ˌun.derˈɡɑːn/

“undergan” is an Old English word. Its 3 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to ruin, undermine
  2. to undergo
  3. to go under

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *undergān. Equivalent to under- + gan. Akin to Old Saxon undargan, undargangan, Old High German untargān.

More Old English words

About this dictionary

The Old English dictionary on Glottosphere has 14,044 entries with a page. Browse the Old English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.