upgang

• upgaing, upgeng, uppgeng (Scotland)

From Middle English upgang, from Old English upgang (“ascent”), equivalent to up- +‎ gang. Cognate with Dutch opgang (“ascent”), German Aufgang (“rising, ascent”), Swedish uppgång (“a rise, a way up”), Icelandic uppgang (“expansion”).

upgang (plural upgangs)

1. (UK dialectal) The act of ascending a slope; ascent.
2. (UK dialectal) A way up; a slope.
3. (UK dialectal) A sudden rising of wind and sea; a storm.

• upgang of weather

• gang up

• upgong

From Proto-West Germanic *uppgang. Equivalent to up- +‎ gang.

• IPA^(key): /ˈupˌɡɑnɡ/, [ˈupˌɡɑŋɡ]

upgang m

1. a rise, ascent
2. an approach: a way up
3. a landing: a going from sea to land
4. an incursion: a going inland

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: upgang
  • English: upgang

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “upgang”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.