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ÁGAN

  • verb [ preterite-present ]
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ÁGAN, to áganne; pres. part, ágende; pres. indic. ic, he áh, ðú áhst, pl. ágon, ágan, águn; p. ic, he áhte, ðú ahtest, pl. áhton; subj. ic, ðú, he áge, pl. ágen; p. ic áhte, pl. áhten; pp. ágen.
Wright's OE grammar
§133; §320; §546;
to
OWN, possess, have, obtain; possidere, habere, percipere
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  • Ðe micel ágan willaþ

    who desire [will] to possess much,

    • Bt. 14, 2; Fox 44, 13
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  • Nú ic áh mǽste þearfe

    Now I have the utmost need,

    • Byrht. Th. 136, 60
    • ;
    • By. 175
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  • Gesyle eall ðæt ðú age

    vende quæcumque habes,

    • Mk. Bos. 10, 21
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  • Ðú ðe áhst dóma geweald

    thou that hast power of dignities,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 1448
    • ;
    • El. 726
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  • Áh him lífes geweald

    he hath power over life,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 1036
    • ;
    • An. 518
    • :
    • Cd. 103; Th. 137, 8
    • ;
    • Gen. 2270
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  • Wuna ðǽm ðé ágon

    dwell with those who own thee,

    • Cd. 104; Th. 138, 18
    • ;
    • Gen. 2293 : 221
    • ;
    • Th. 287, 3
    • ;
    • Sat. 361
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  • Ðæt hie heofonríce ágan

    that they shall possess heaven's kingdom,

    • 22; Th. 27, 33
    • ;
    • Gen. 427
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  • águn

    they possess,

    • Exon. 33 b; Th. 106, 33
    • ;
    • Gú. 50
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  • Ðæt ic éce líf áge

    ut vitam æternam percipiam,

    • Mk. Bos. 10, 17
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  • He sealde eall ðæt he áhte

    vendidit omnia quæ habuit,

    • Mt. Bos. 13, 46
    • :
    • Ps. Th. 147, 3
    • :
    • Beo. Th. 5210
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    • B. 2608
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  • Hí gewyrhto áhton

    They possessed merits,

    • Cd. 196; Th. 244, 7
    • ;
    • Dan. 444
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  • Áhton,

    • Ps. Th. 118, 79
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  • Ðæt hí sige áhten

    that they had the victory,

    • Bd. 3, 2 ; S. 524, 28
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  • Dóm ágende

    possessing power.

    • Andr. Kmbl. 1139
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    • An. 570
    • :
    • Exon. 68 a; Th. 253, 26
    • ;
    • Jul. 186
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  • Ðeáh he feoh-gestreón áhte

    although he possessed riches,

    • Exon. 66b; Th. 245, 13
    • ;
    • Jul. 44
    • .
to make another to own or possess, hence, — to give, deliver, restore; dare in possessionem, reddere, rependere
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  • Éðelstówe ðé ic ágan sceal

    I shall give thee a dwelling-place,

    • Cd. 130; Th. 164, 34
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    • Gen. 2724
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  • On hand ágan

    to deliver in hand,

    • Ors. 3, 11?
  • Ágan út

    to have or find out.

  • Lett ágan út, hú fela

    permit to find out, how many,

    • Chr. 1085; Th. 353, 5
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  • [Ágan is the first of the following twelve Anglo-Saxon verbs, — ágan, cunnan, dugan, durran, magan, mótan, munan, nugan, sculan, þurfan, unnan, witan, which are called præterito-præsentia, because they take their new infinitives and their present tenses from the perfects of strong verbs with their inflections. These new infinitives form their p. tenses regularly in accordance with the weak conjugations. Thus, the new infinitive. ágan has pres. ic, he áh = ág, pl. ágon; p. áhte = ágde, pl. áhton = ágdon. The inf. ágan and the pres. áh, pl. ágon [for igon], retaining preterite inflections, are taken from the p. of a strong verb, ascertained from áh [Goth, áih], which shews the á of the

    p. singular

    in the eighth class of
      Grimm's division of strong verbs [Grm. i. p. 837; Koch i. p. 253
    ], and requires by analogy, with other verbs of the same class, the inf. ígan, the p. pl. igon, and the pp. igen. Thus we find the original verb ígan; p. áh, pl. igon; pp. igen. But in ágan the á of the singular indef. is kept in the pl. inf. and pp. The weak p. áhte = ágde, pl. áhton=ágdon are formed regularly from the weak infin. ágan. The same præterito-præsens may be generally observed in the following cognate words :--   inf. pres. pl. p.   Engl. owe, possidere,     ought. Laym. agen, ah, agen, ahte. O. Sax. égan, [éh], égun, éhta. O. Frs. ága, hága, ách, ágon, áchte. O. H. Ger. eigan,   eigumés.   Goth. áigan, áih, áigum, áihta. O. Nrs. eiga, á, eigum, átta.]
Derived forms
ágen, -frigea, -nama, -nyss, -slaga, ágend, -freá, -líce, áhni-an, ágni-an, -end, -endlíc, ge-ágnian, ge-ágnigendlíc, ágenung, ǽht, ǽhte-land, -man, -swán, ǽhtige
Linked entries
v.  ǽgan ǽhte áge ágen ágon áh áhst áhte áhton.
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