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: agn, agnæ pl
  • 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