Английский Этимологический словарь - went

- past tense of go, originally past tense and pp. of wend. The original past tense forms of wend were wende, wended, but variants wente, went developed from c.1200 and began to replace older past tenses of go. By c.1500 they were fully employed in that function, and wend was given a new past tense form, wended.