agn

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

agn c (singular definite agnen, plural indefinite agne)

1. bait

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

• IPA^(key): /akn/
• Rhymes: -akn

agn n (genitive singular agns, plural øgn)

1. bait

• (bait): beita f

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

• IPA^(key): /akn/
• Rhymes: -akn

agn n (genitive singular agns, nominative plural ögn)

1. bait

   Synonym: beita

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “agana-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 3

agn

1. plural of ann

• IPA^(key): /aɲ/

agn

1. plural of ann

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

agn n (definite singular agnet, indefinite plural agn, definite plural agna or agnene)

1. bait

• IPA^(key): /ɑŋn/

From Old Norse agn. Attested in neutrum gender for Spydeberg dialect by Jacob Nicolai Wilse, in difference to Danish agn c.

agn n (definite singular agnet, indefinite plural agn, definite plural agna)

1. (countable and uncountable) bait

From earlier ogn and Old Norse ǫgn (plural agnir), from Proto-Germanic *aganō, *ahanō.

• ogn (non-standard since 1938)

agn f (definite singular agna, indefinite plural agner, definite plural agnene)

1. husk
2. (plural only) chaff

• “agn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ang, ang., gan

From Proto-Germanic *aganą (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

agn n (genitive agns, plural ǫgn)

1. (fishing) bait

   Synonym: beita

• agnsax (“bait-knife, knife used for cutting the bait when fishing”)
• egna (“to bait, fasten bait (on a hook)”)

• Icelandic: agn
• Faroese: agn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: agn
• Norwegian Bokmål: agn
• Swedish: agn
• Danish: agn

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “agn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

agn n

1. bait for fishing

• agna (“to bait”)

• bete

From Old Norse ǫgn, from Proto-Germanic *ahanō.

agn c

1. husk
2. (plural only) chaff

• skilja agnarna från vetet (“separate the wheat from the chaff”)
• skingras som agnar för vinden

• agn in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• agn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• agn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• agn in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)