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umbego

umbego verb: to go around.

Verb

umbego (third-person singular simple present umbegoes, present participle umbegoing, simple past umbewent, past participle umbegone)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go around.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To go about; encompass; encircle; surround.

Forms of umbego

third-person singular presentumbegoes
present participleumbegoing
pastumbewent
past participleumbegone

Origin of umbego

From Middle English umbegon, from Old English ymbgān (“to go around, go about, surround”), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to um- + bego, or umbe- + go.

Questions about umbego

What does umbego mean?
Umbego means to go around.
What part of speech is umbego?
Umbego is a verb.
What is the past tense of umbego?
The past tense of umbego is umbewent.

Words near umbego in the dictionary

  1. umbecast
  2. umbecasting
  3. umbeclap
  4. umbedraw
  5. umbedrawing
  6. umbego
  7. umbegoing
  8. umbegrip
  9. umbegrippe
  10. umbegripping
  11. umbel

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