IF this helps:

OE 'gang' = 3rd pers sing. of 'gongan' to walk, go
Also: 'gang' noun,m, =flow

OE for ME 'gain' = 'gegongan'

Good luck,

Lucy-Jane MICHEL


Quoting Haukur Thorgeirsson <haukurth@...>:

> Hinn 04. ágúst 2004 lét James R. Johnson þetta frá sér fara:
> > I was looking at making a computer glossary for ON and OE, and was
> wondering
> > what the cognates for "gögn" would be in either language. Would it be
> > "gang" in OE?
>
> Hmm... I think the Modern English cognate for 'gagn' is "gain". Maybe you can
> work backwards from that.
>
> And 'gögn' is certainly the Modern Icelandic word for "data".
> Note, however, that 'gagn' is not "datum" :)
>
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