Obs. Forms: 1 Northumb. ʓeonga, 3 ȝunge, ȝeonge, -ȝenge, -yenge [see MISYENGE, to go astray], 3–4 ȝonge, 4–5 yonge, 5 ȝynge; pa. pple. 3 -ȝeong, -e(n, -ed. [OE. (Northumb.) ʓeonga, and in comp. foreʓeonga to go forward, inʓeonga to enter, útʓeonga to go out, *ymbʓeonga to surround (pa. t. ymbéade): cf. prec.] intr. To go.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Mark xiv. 42. Surgite eamas, arisað gæ we vel wutun ʓeonga.
c. 1205. Lay., 8436. Euelin i-seh enne gume ȝungen him bi-halfues. Ibid. (c. 1275), 9061. Nas hit noht longe þat he ne com ȝonge.
13[?]. Pol. Songs (Camden), 216. Now Kyng Hobbe in the mures ȝongeth.
a. 1375. Joseph Arim., 313. Þenne þei wenden heore wei and to þe court ȝongen.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 641. And wrie hem fest, lest wynd therynto yonge.
a. 1450. Myrc, Par. Pr., 1851. Make þy clerk before þe ȝynge, To bere lyȝt, and belle rynge.
*** Illustration of compounds (see etym, above; also ME. pa. pples. aȝeong(en) passed, biȝeonge surrounded).
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. xix. 23. Wlonc uneaðe innʓeongas in ric heofna.
c. 1205. Lay., 9364. Þe sæ wes iȝeonged [MS. -eð], þe scipen stoden a londe. Ibid., 23557. Þa feouwer wiken weoren aȝonged [c. 1275 agon]. Ibid., 23702. In þan æitlonde þe mid watere is biȝeonge. Ibid., 28893. Þe alde king deȝede, his daȝes weoren aȝeongen. Ibid., 30552. Þa niȝen dæȝes weoren aȝeong.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., II. 214. Vp they goth vche as her seed is, and letuce in their leues vmbiyonge. Ibid., IV. 437. With seefroth other haue hem vmbiyonge.
