äga

• aͤga (obsolete typography)
• ega (obsolete)

  In the 6th edition of SAOL (1889), when jern changed to järn, Ega was still spelled with e with the final remark "Skrifves äfven Äga o.s.v." Some derived words never changed, like egen (“own”), egendom (“property”), egentlig (“proper”).

• IPA^(key): /²ɛːɡa/
• Rhymes: -²ɛːɡa

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From Old Swedish ǣgha, from Old Norse eiga, from Proto-Germanic *aigǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *eik-.

äga c

1. an estate, grounds, property, land

   i någons ägo ― in one's possession

• Ägo in the phrase i någons ägo is an archaic dative form of this noun. The similar-looking archaic genitive form ägo is also the basis for compounds.

From Old Swedish ǣgha, from Old Norse eiga, from Proto-Germanic *aiganą, from Proto-Indo-European *eik-.

äga (present äger, preterite ägde, supine ägt, imperative äg)

1. to own
   • Karlskrönikan, quoted in 1913, Carl Grimberg, Svenska folkets underbara öden, I. Forntiden och medeltiden intill 1521, page 438

     […] De togo dem från vad de åtte
     och kastade över bord vem de förmådde. […]

     […] They took from them what they owned
     and threw overboard whoever they could. […]

2. (Internet slang) to own, to pwn

   Fan vad ägd du blev

   You got totally owned

   Synonym: ega

• The past tense åtte is heavily archaic and will likely not be understood by most speakers.
• Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden. The recommendations apply primarily to governmental texts; they may or may not apply to other legal prose.

• egen
• äganderätt
• ägare
• ägarinna
• ägna

• äga in Svensk ordbok.
• Ega in Svenska Akademiens ordlista öfver svenska språket (6th ed., 1889)
• äga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)