agan
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Cornish
Alternative forms
- (short form) gàn
- (after certain words) -'gan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Determiner
agan
Old English
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *aigan, from Proto-Germanic *aiganą.
Pronunciation
Verb
āgan
- to own, possess
- 10th century, The Wanderer:
- forþon ne mæġ wearþan wīs · wer, ǣr hē āge
wintra dǣl in woruldrīċe. · Wita sċeal ġeþyldiġ.- thus a man cannot become wise, before he would own
a part of years in world-kingdom. A wise man must be patient.
- thus a man cannot become wise, before he would own
- to cause to own: to give, to deliver
Conjugation
Conjugation of āgan (preterite-present)
infinitive | āgan | āgenne |
---|---|---|
indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | āh | āhte |
second person singular | āhst | āhtest |
third person singular | āh | āhte |
plural | āgon | āhton |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | āge | āhte |
plural | āgen | āhten |
imperative | ||
singular | āge | |
plural | āgaþ | |
participle | present | past |
āgende | (ġe)āgen |
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān. Equivalent to ā- + gān.
Pronunciation
Verb
āgān
- to go out, (in the past participle) gone
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 7:30
- Þā hēo on hire hūs ēode, hēo ġemētte þæt mæġden on hire bedde liċġende and þæt dēofol ūt āgān.
- When she entered her house, she found the girl lying in her bed and the demon gone.
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 7:30
- to pass (of time)
- to happen
- to become known: get out, come out
Conjugation
Conjugation of āgān (irregular)
infinitive | āgān | āgānne |
---|---|---|
indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | āgā | āēode |
second person singular | āgǣst | āēodest |
third person singular | āgǣþ | āēode |
plural | āgāþ | āēodon |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | āgā | āēode |
plural | āgān | āēoden |
imperative | ||
singular | āgā | |
plural | āgāþ | |
participle | present | past |
āgānde | āgān |
Swedish
Noun
agan
Anagrams
Yoruba
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
àgàn
- childlessness
- (sometimes derogatory) A barren woman, a childless woman
Categories:
- Cornish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Cornish lemmas
- Cornish determiners
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English verbs
- Old English terms with quotations
- Old English preterite-present verbs
- Old English terms prefixed with a-
- Old English irregular verbs
- Swedish non-lemma forms
- Swedish noun forms
- Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation
- Yoruba lemmas
- Yoruba nouns
- Yoruba derogatory terms
- yo:People