agen

Variant of again.

• enPR: əgĕn

agen (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of again
   • 1832-1837, John Clare, Approaching Night

     O, how I long to be agen

     That poor and independent man,

     With labour's lot from morn to night

     And books to read at candle light;

agen

1. Obsolete spelling of again

• Agne, Ange, Egan, Gean, Gena, gean, gena, nega-

From Dutch agent, from French agent, from Latin agēns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɛn/
• Hyphenation: a‧gèn

agèn (plural agen-agen, first-person possessive agenku, second-person possessive agenmu, third-person possessive agennya)

1. agent:
   1. (economics, management, trading) one who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from them; someone entrusted to do the business of another.

      Synonyms: dalal, penghubung, perantara, wakil jual, bandar, pengedar, pemasok, penyalur

   2. someone who works for an intelligence agency.
   3. (biology, chemistry) an active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.

      Synonyms: bahan, penyebab

   4. (drama) a person who looks for work for another person.

• (biological, chemical): agén (Standard Malay)
• (person): éjén (Standard Malay)

• “agen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

agen

1. Alternative form of awen

Borrowed from Old French aagier; equivalent to age +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːd͡ʒən/

agen

1. (usually in the past participle) to become older; to age.

• English: age
• Scots: age

• “āǧen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.

Variant of Old English ongēan (“again, eft, back”).

IPA^(key): /ɑˈjeːn/

aġēn

1. against, contra

   Se þe nis aġēn ēow, se is for ēow.

   Who is not against you, is for you.

   Þīn brōðor hæfþ ǣnig þing aġēn þē.

   Thy brother hath ought against thee.

aġēn

1. again, anew

   Þe þē slihþ on þīn gewenge, wend ōðer aġēn.

   Who strikes thee on thine cheek, offer also the other.

   Þā wende hē on scype aġēn.

   Then he went into the ship again.

aġēn

1. again, eft, back

• aġēnbewendan (“to return”)
• aġēncuman (“to come back”)
• aġēnġecyrran (“to turn again, recur”)
• aġēnġehweorfan (“to change again, return”)
• agēnhwyrfan (“to turn again, return (agen-whirl)”)
• aġēniernan (“to run against, meet”)
• aġēnlǣdan (“to lead back”)
• aġēnsendan (“to send back”)
• aġēnstandan (“to stand against, urge, insist upon”)
• aġēnyrnan (“to run into, meet with, meet”)

Literally ‘owned’: originally the past participle of āgan. Corresponding to Old Dutch eigan (Dutch eigen), Old High German eigan (German eigen), Old Norse eiginn (Swedish egen).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.ɡen/, [ˈɑː.ɣen]

āgen

1. own
   • Godes āgen bearn. ― God’s own child. (Cædmon’s Metrical Paraphrase)
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "On Auguries"

     Þas twa gesceafta habbað gesceadwisnysse and ælc man hæfð agenne freodom...

     These two creations possess reason, and every man hath his own freedom...

• Note that а̄gen is almost always declined strong.

• āgnian
• āgan

• Middle English: aghen, oghn, aȝen, oȝen, awen, owen
  • English: own
  • Scots: awn, ain

agen n (nominative plural āgen)

1. property, house
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Agnes, Virgin"

     se fæder and seo modor mid mycelre blysse gelæhton hyre lic and gelæddon to heora agenum,...

     Her father and her mother, with great joy, took her body, and brought it to their own house,...

agen (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of again

• “agen, adv., prep., conj.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

agen

1. third-person plural present indicative of agir

agen

1. definite singular of ag

• Agne, ange, egna, gena

From gagen (“cleft, slit”)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈaɡɛn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈa(ː)ɡɛn/

agen f (plural agennau)

1. cleft, fissure, gap
2. slit, slot

• agendor (“chasm, gulf”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “agen”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies