awe

See also: Awe

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English eġe, influenced during Middle English by forms from the Old Norse cognate agi, both from Proto-Germanic *agaz. See also ey.

PronunciationEdit

• In non-rhotic accents:
  • enPR: ô, IPA^(key): /ɔː/

  • (file)

  • Homophones: oar, or, ore, o'er
• In rhotic accents:
  • (US) enPR: ô, IPA^(key): /ɔ/

  • (file)

  • Homophone: aw
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA^(key): /ɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

NounEdit

awe (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. A feeling of amazement.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     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.

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from awe (noun)

• awe-inspiring
• awesome
• awestruck

• awful
• shock and awe

TranslationsEdit

feeling of fear and reverence

• Bulgarian: страхопочитание (bg) (strahopočitanie), благоговение (bg) (blagogovenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 敬畏 (zh) (jìngwèi)

• Danish: ærefrygt c
• Finnish: syvä kunnioitus, kunnioittava pelko, pelko (fi)
• French: crainte (fr) f, révérence (fr) f
• German: Ehrfurcht (de) f
• Greek: δέος (el) n (déos), σέβας (el) n (sévas)
• Hungarian: áhitat

• Italian: timore (it) m
• Macedonian: стравопочит f (stravopóčit)
• Polish: groza (pl) f, trwoga (pl) f
• Portuguese: temor (pt) m
• Russian: благогове́ние (ru) n (blagogovénije), тре́пет (ru) m (trépet)
• Spanish: pavor (es) m
• Swedish: fruktan (sv) c, bävan (sv)
• Turkish: huşu (tr)

feeling of amazement

• Danish: ærefrygt c
• Esperanto: admirego
• Finnish: hämmästys (fi), ällikkä
• French: admiration (fr) f
• Greek: κατάπληξη (el) f (katáplixi)
• Hungarian: bámulat (hu)

• Polish: zachwyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: espanto (pt) m
• Russian: изумле́ние (ru) n (izumlénije)
• Spanish: asombro (es) m
• Swedish: häpnad (sv), förundran (sv), förvåning (sv), bestörtning (sv)
• Turkish: huşu (tr)

VerbEdit

awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.

SynonymsEdit

• (inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm

Derived termsEdit

• awed
• aweless
• awesome
• awe-inspiring
• awful

TranslationsEdit

to inspire fear and reverence

• Bulgarian: внушавам страхопочитание (vnušavam strahopočitanie)
• Finnish: pelottaa (fi), herättää pelkoa, herättää kunnioitusta
• Greek: προκαλώ δέος (prokaló déos), καταπλήσσω (el) (kataplísso)
• Persian: نهازیدن‎‎ (fa) (nehâzidan)

• Russian: внушать (vnušatʹ) тре́пет (trépet) (vnušátʹ trépet), внушать (vnušatʹ) благогове́ние (blagogovénije) (vnušátʹ blagogovénije)
• Spanish: asombrar (es), abrumar (es)
• Turkish: huşu uyandırmak, huşulandırmak

to control by inspiring dread

• Finnish: pelotella (fi)
• German: einschüchtern (de)

• Greek: εκφοβίζω (el) (ekfovízo)

AnagramsEdit

• WAE, eaw, wae

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MapudungunEdit

AdverbEdit

awe (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. quickly, promptly.
2. soon

SynonymsEdit

• arol

ReferencesEdit

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

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Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English ēowu.

NounEdit

awe

1. Alternative form of ewe

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égʰos. Doublet of eye.

Alternative formsEdit

• aw, ahe, au, aue, aghe, age, aȝe

PronunciationEdit

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /ˈaɣə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈau̯(ə)/
• Rhymes: -au̯(ə)

NounEdit

awe (uncountable)

1. awe, wonder, reverence
2. fear, horror
3. That which elicits or incites horror; something horrifying

Related termsEdit

• agheful
• aghlich (rare)
• awles (rare)
• awen (rare)

DescendantsEdit

• English: awe
• Scots: awe, aw

ReferencesEdit

• “aue (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.

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Western ArrernteEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /awə/

InterjectionEdit

awe

1. yes