Noun: going
| Singular | going |
| Plural | goings |
Sample Sentences
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Māna-Yood-Sushāī was before the beginning of the gods, and shall be after their going. […] After the going of the gods there will be no small worlds nor big. [1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:]
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But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […] [1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:]
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The going was very difficult over the ice.
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We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
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Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
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His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 34:21:]
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I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?
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Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.
Nouns inflected like going
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Verb form from Middle English goinge, goynge, gayng, variants of gonde, goonde, gaand, from Old English gānde, from Proto-Germanic *gēndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *gēną, *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to go + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian geanend (“going”), Dutch gaand (“going”), German gehend (“going”), Danish gående (“going”), Swedish gående (“going”).
2. Noun and adjective from Middle English going, goyng, gaing, gayng, equivalent to go + -ing. Compare German Gehung, Old English gang (“a going”). More at gang. See: Middle English Nouns '
goinge', Old English Nouns '
gānde', Swedish Nouns '
gående', Old English Nouns '
gang'.