awe
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /ɔː/
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- (US) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /ɔ/
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- (cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA(key): /ɑ/
- Homophone: aw
- (in non-rhotic accents): oar, or, ore, o'er
- Rhymes: -ɔː
Noun edit
awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)
- A feeling of fear and reverence.
- 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 172:
- Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
- A feeling of amazement.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
- (archaic) Power to inspire awe.
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Verb edit
awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)
- (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[2]:
- That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
- (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.
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Anyi edit
Noun edit
awe
- rice
- mɩn nin a tʋn awe.
- My mother prepared rice.
Baoule edit
Noun edit
awe
Gun edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Gbe *-ve or Proto-Gbe *-we. Cognates include Fon àwè, Saxwe Gbe owè, Adja eve, Ewe eve
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
àwè
Adjective edit
àwè
Related terms edit
1 - ɖòkpó, dòpó | 2 | 3 - atɔ̀n, atọ̀n | |
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cardinal number | àwè | ||
ordinal number | àwètɔ́, àwètọ́ |
Maori edit
Noun edit
awe
Mapudungun edit
Adverb edit
awe (Raguileo spelling)
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References edit
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égʰos. Doublet of eye.
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Noun edit
awe (uncountable)
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References edit
- “aue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.
Etymology 2 edit
Adverb edit
awe
- Alternative form of away
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
awe
- Alternative form of ewe
Papiamentu edit
Alternative forms edit
- awé (alternative spelling)
Etymology edit
From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.
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awe
Swahili edit
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awe
Tabaru edit
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awe
- a thread
References edit
- Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics
Tooro edit
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Pronoun edit
-awe (declinable)
- your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)
Usage notes edit
- This modifier, when used in the indefinite forms, causes the word before it to lose its high tone.
Inflection edit
Noun class | indefinite | definite | ||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | |
1/2 | waawe | baawe | owaawe | abaawe |
3/4 | gwawe | yaawe | ogwawe | eyaawe |
5/6 | lyawe | gaawe | eryawe | agaawe |
7/8 | kyawe | byawe | ekyawe | ebyawe |
9/10 | yaawe | zaawe | eyaawe | ezaawe |
11/10 | rwawe | orwawe | ||
12/14 | kaawe | bwawe | akaawe | obwawe |
13 | twawe | otwawe | ||
14/6 | bwawe | gaawe | obwawe | agaawe |
15/6 | kwawe | okwawe | ||
16 | haawe | ahaawe | ||
18 | mwawe | omwawe |
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Western Arrernte edit
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awe
Yoruba edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
àwé
Usage notes edit
- More commonly used in Central Yoruba dialects