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

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

From awe +‎ -en.

agen

1. Alternative form of awen

Borrowed from Old French aagier; equivalent to age +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːdʒən/

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 ðe nis agēn eōw, se is for eōw.

   Who is not against you, is for you.

   Ðín brōðor hæfþ ǣnig þing agēn ðē.

   Thy brother hath ought against thee.

aġēn

1. again, anew

   Ðe ðé slihþ on ðín gewenge, wend óðer agén.

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

   Ðá wende he on scype agén.

   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 Saxon ēgan (Dutch eigen), Old High German eigan (German eigen), Old Norse eiginn (Swedish egen).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɡen/, [ˈɑːɣen]

āgen

1. own

   Godes agen bearn.

   God’s own child. (Cædmon’s Metrical Paraphrase)

agen

1. definite singular of ag