ǫgn

See also: ogn, ögn, and agn

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *ahanō.

Noun

ǫgn f (genitive agnar, plural agnar or agnir)

  1. chaff, husks
Declension
Declension of ǫgn (strong ō-stem, ar and ir-plurals)
feminine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ǫgn ǫgnin agnar, agnir agnarnar, agnirnar
accusative ǫgn ǫgnina agnar, agnir agnarnar, agnirnar
dative ǫgn ǫgninni ǫgnum ǫgnunum
genitive agnar agnarinnar agna agnanna
Descendants
  • Icelandic: ögn
  • Faroese: øgn
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: agn, ogn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: agn
  • Old Danish: aghn
    • Danish: avne
    • → North Frisian:
      Föhr-Amrum: aagen
      Mooring-Sylt:
      Mooring: åågene
      Sylt: Aagen
      Wiedingharde: aagene
  • Swedish: agn
  • Elfdalian: aungen
  • →? Middle English: awne, agune, auene, aune, awene, awun
    • English: awn; awns
    • Scots: yawin, yavin, yewn

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ögn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 528; also available at the Internet Archive
  • Norbruis, Stefan (2015) “tsjêf”, in Etymological Dictionary of West Frisian Farming Vocabulary‎[1], Leiden: Leiden University, page 43.

Etymology 2

Form of agn n (“bait”).

Noun

ǫgn n

  1. nominative/accusative plural indefinite of agn
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