awe
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
- (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
NounEdit
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 18478577; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, OCLC 988016180:
- 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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VerbEdit
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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AnagramsEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Gbe *-ve or Proto-Gbe *-we. Cognates include Fon àwè, Saxwe Gbe owè, Adja eve, Ewe eve
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
àwè
AdjectiveEdit
àwè
Related termsEdit
1 - ɖòkpó, dòpó | 2 | 3 - atɔ̀n, atọ̀n | |
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cardinal number | àwè | ||
ordinal number | àwètɔ́, àwètọ́ |
MaoriEdit
NounEdit
awe
MapudungunEdit
AdverbEdit
awe (Raguileo spelling)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égʰos. Doublet of eye.
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NounEdit
awe (uncountable)
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “aue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.
Etymology 2Edit
AdverbEdit
awe
- Alternative form of away
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
awe
- Alternative form of ewe
PapiamentuEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- awé (alternative spelling)
EtymologyEdit
From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.
PronounEdit
awe
SwahiliEdit
VerbEdit
awe
- inflection of -wa:
TabaruEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
awe
- a thread
ReferencesEdit
- 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
Western ArrernteEdit
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InterjectionEdit
awe
YorubaEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
àwé
Usage notesEdit
- More commonly used in Central Yoruba dialects