agan

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See also: Agan, agán, aĝan, ağan, ägan, and -agán

Cornish

Alternative forms

  • (short form) gàn
  • (after certain words) -'gan

Etymology

Compare Welsh ein.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˌæɡən/

Determiner

agan

  1. our

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *aigan, from Proto-Germanic *aiganą.

Pronunciation

Verb

āgan

  1. 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.
  2. to cause to own: to give, to deliver
Conjugation
Descendants
  • Middle English: owen, ouen, own, owe, awen, aȝen
    • English: owe (present tense), ought (past tense), own (past participle)
    • Scots: aw, awe

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *uʀgān. Equivalent to ā- +‎ gān.

Pronunciation

Verb

āgān

  1. 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.
  2. to pass (of time)
  3. to happen
  4. to become known: get out, come out
Conjugation

Swedish

Noun

agan

  1. definite singular of aga

Anagrams

Yoruba

Etymology

Compare with Igbo àgà

Pronunciation

Noun

àgàn

  1. childlessness
  2. (sometimes derogatory) A barren woman, a childless woman