gan (root: gin)

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

gan, imp. [See Gin, v.].

 Began; commenced.  [1913 Webster]
" Gan was formerly used with the infinitive to form compound imperfects, as did is now employed. Gan regularly denotes the singular; the plural is usually denoted by gunne or gonne."  [1913 Webster]
"This man gan fall (i.e., fell) in great suspicion."  [1913 Webster]
"The little coines to their play gunne hie (i. e., hied)."  [1913 Webster]
"Yet at her speech their rages gan relent."  [1913 Webster]