went (v.)

past tense of go; originally a past tense and past participle of wend (v.), as sent from send. The past tense forms of wend were wende, wended, but variants wente, went developed from c. 1200 and these then began to replace older past tenses of go (v.). By c. 1500 they were fully employed in that function, and wend retained the past tense form wended.