eage
Middle French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
eage m (plural eages)
- age (amount of time something has existed)
Old English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæ͜ɑː.ɡe/, [ˈæ͜ɑː.ɣe]
Noun
ēage n
Declension
Weak:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | ēage | ēagan |
accusative | ēage | ēagan |
genitive | ēagan | ēagena |
dative | ēagan | ēagum |
Derived terms
- dæġes ēage (“daisy”)
- ēagæppel (“eyeball”)
- ēaghring (“eye socket”)
- ēagþȳrel (“window”)
- -īeġe (“-eyed”)
Descendants
See also
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, from Latin aetātem. Alternatively formed within Old French from eé + -age.
Pronunciation
Noun
eage oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural eages, nominative singular eages, nominative plural eage)
- age (of a person)
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
- Onques nus hon de son aage
Ne fu de greignor vasselage.- Never was a man of his age
Of greater courage.
- Never was a man of his age
- Synonym: eé
- age (era)
- (Anglo-Norman, law) coming of age
- date of coming of age
Descendants
- Angevin: age m or f
- Champenois: aige
- Franc-Comtois: aîdge, adge, edze m
- Gallo: age m or f
- Lorrain: edge m, eche, ache, èje f
- Middle French: âge m or f
- Norman: age m or f, âge f
- Orléanais: age m
- Picard: age m or f, ache, aje f
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: age m or f, ah, agh' m, âge f
- Walloon: atche m, ådje f
- → Middle English: age, aage, ayge (both rare)
- → Old Occitan: atge m
- → Occitan: atge m
References
- eage in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aetas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 237