Obs. Forms: 1 Northumb. (hin)iong, ʓeong, 3 ȝeong(e, (ȝoing?, ȝeonc-), 3–4 ȝong(e. [OE. (Northumb.) ʓeong, and in comp. hiniong departure, inʓeong entrance, útʓeong exit, ymbʓeong ‘decursus, ambitus’: of obscure origin; cf. next.] Going: gait; traveling, journey; course.
Ȝongdawes, Rogation Days; cf. GANG-DAYS.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Mark i. 3. Rectas facile semitas eius, rehta doeð vel wyrcas stiʓa vel ʓeongas his. Ibid., Luke ii. 44. Uenerunt iter diei, cuonion ʓeong dæʓes.
c. 1205. Lay., 1298. Þeonene he ferden forð wel feole dawen ȝong.
a. 1225. Leg. Kath., 560. Earen buten herunge, honden buten felunge, fet buten ȝonge. Ibid., 569. Ich … wule … wið kinewurðe ȝeoues ȝelden ow hehliche ower ȝong hider.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 412. Uridawes and umbridawes and ȝoing dawes [v.rr. ȝong dahes, ȝeoncdaȝes].
a. 1300. Sayings of Bernard, 184 (MS. Laud 108), in Herrig’s Archiv, LII. 33. Þis ridingue and þis proute ȝong.
a. 1327. in Rel. Ant., I. 124. Nou nabbe y nout that ȝong, That speche, ne that song.
*** Illustration of compounds (see etym. above).
a. 900. Bede’s Death-song, in O. E. Texts, 149. Aer his hinionge.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Mark, Introd. 4. Of uneaðalice wlonga innʓeonges in ric godes. Ibid., Matt. xxii. 9. Ʒeongas forðon to utʓeong ðære weʓana [Ruskw. utgengum].
c. 1205. Lay., 28370. Þa burhweren … warnden him inȝeong.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 62. Þurh eie þurles deað haueð hire inȝong into þe soule. Ibid., 206. To openen þet inȝong & leten in sunne.
a. 1240. Sawles Warde, in O. E. Hom., I. 247. Forte sechen in ȝong abute þe wahes.
c. 1320. Cast. Love, 878. Þorw þe faste ȝat he con in teo, And at þe out-ȝong he lette faste beo.
