ǫgn
Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Germanic *ahanō.
Noun edit
ǫgn f (genitive agnar, plural agnar or agnir)
Declension edit
Declension of ǫgn (strong ō-stem, ar and ir-plurals)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: ögn
- Faroese: øgn
- Norwegian Nynorsk: agn, ogn
- Norwegian Bokmål: agn
- Old Danish: aghn
- Swedish: agn
- Elfdalian: aungen
- →? Middle English: awne, agune, auene, aune, awene, awun
References edit
- ögn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
- Norbruis, Stefan (2015) “tsjêf”, in Etymological Dictionary of West Frisian Farming Vocabulary[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page 43.
Etymology 2 edit
Form of agn n (“bait”).
Noun edit
ǫgn n