agn
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).
Noun
[edit]agn c (singular definite agnen, plural indefinite agne)
Declension
[edit]Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]agn n (genitive singular agns, plural øgn)
Declension
[edit]n5 | singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | agn | agnið | øgn | øgnini |
accusative | agn | agnið | øgn | øgnini |
dative | agni | agninum | øgnum | øgnunum |
genitive | agns | agnsins | agna | agnanna |
Synonyms
[edit]- (bait): beita f
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]agn n (genitive singular agns, nominative plural ögn)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Guus Kroonen (2013) “agana-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 3
Ladin
[edit]Noun
[edit]agn
Lombard
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]agn
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).
Noun
[edit]agn n (definite singular agnet, indefinite plural agn, definite plural agna or agnene)
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse agn. Attested in neutrum gender for Spydeberg dialect by Jacob Nicolai Wilse, in difference to Danish agn c.
Noun
[edit]agn n (definite singular agnet, indefinite plural agn, definite plural agna)
- (countable and uncountable) bait
Etymology 2
[edit]From earlier ogn and Old Norse ǫgn (plural agnir), from Proto-Germanic *aganō, *ahanō.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]agn f (definite singular agna, indefinite plural agner, definite plural agnene)
References
[edit]- “agn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Old Norse
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *aganą (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).
Noun
[edit]agn n (genitive agns, plural ǫgn)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- agnsax (“bait-knife, knife used for cutting the bait when fishing”)
- egna (“to bait, fasten bait (on a hook)”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “agn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Swedish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).
Noun
[edit]agn n
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- agna (“to bait”)
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Norse ǫgn, from Proto-Germanic *ahanō.
Noun
[edit]agn c
Declension
[edit]nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | agn | agns |
definite | agnen | agnens | |
plural | indefinite | agnar | agnars |
definite | agnarna | agnarnas |
Derived terms
[edit]- skilja agnarna från vetet (“separate the wheat from the chaff”)
- skingras som agnar för vinden
References
[edit]- agn in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- agn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- agn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- agn in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- Faroese terms inherited from Old Norse
- Faroese terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Faroese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Faroese/akn
- Rhymes:Faroese/akn/1 syllable
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese nouns
- Faroese neuter nouns
- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Icelandic 1-syllable words
- Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Icelandic/akn
- Rhymes:Icelandic/akn/1 syllable
- Icelandic lemmas
- Icelandic nouns
- Icelandic neuter nouns
- Ladin non-lemma forms
- Ladin noun forms
- Lombard terms with IPA pronunciation
- Lombard non-lemma forms
- Lombard noun forms
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk neuter nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk countable nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk uncountable nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk pluralia tantum
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Norse lemmas
- Old Norse nouns
- Old Norse neuter nouns
- non:Fishing
- Old Norse neuter a-stem nouns
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish pluralia tantum