goes

See also: GOES, Goes, Goes., Góes, goês, and gös

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡəʊz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡoʊz/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Hyphenation: goes

Verb

goes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of go

Noun

goes

1. plural of go

Anagrams

• EOGs, GEOs, Gose, Sego, egos, geos, gose, sego

Cornish

Alternative forms

• goos

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *waytos, probably ultimately from the root of gwythi (“veins”), see that entry for cognates. Cognate with Breton gwad and Welsh gwaed.

Noun

goes m

1. blood

Mutation

Mutation of goes

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
goes	woes	unchanged	koes	hwoes	woes

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ɡoːɨ̯s/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɡɔi̯s/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ɡoːs/

Noun

goes

1. Soft mutation of coes.

Mutation

Mutated forms of coes

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
coes	goes	nghoes	choes

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuə̯s/

Noun

goes c (plural guozzen or (archaic) gies, diminutive guoske)

1. goose

Further reading

• “goes”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011