awe
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Translingual
Etymology
Clipping of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#AWE AwetiCategory:Translingual clippings#AWE.
Symbol
aweCategory:Translingual lemmas#AWECategory:Translingual symbols#AWECategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#AWECategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
See also
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /ɔː/Category:English 1-syllable words#AWECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AWE
- (Standard Southern British, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /oː/Category:English 1-syllable words#AWECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AWE
- (US, without the cot–caught merger) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /ɔ/Category:English 1-syllable words#AWECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AWE
- (US, cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA(key): /ɑ/Category:English 1-syllable words#AWECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AWE
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ɔ/Category:English 1-syllable words#AWECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#AWE
- Homophones: aw; or (non-rhotic); oar, ore, o'er (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)Category:English terms with homophones#AWE
- Rhymes: -ɔːCategory:Rhymes:English/ɔː#AWECategory:Rhymes:English/ɔː/1 syllable#AWE
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AWECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂egʰ-#AWEFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#AWECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#AWE aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old NorseCategory:English terms derived from Old Norse#AWE agi, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#AWE *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AWE *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
Noun
awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)Category:English lemmas#AWECategory:English nouns#AWECategory:English uncountable nouns#AWECategory:English countable nouns#AWECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
- A feeling of fear and reverence.
- 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 172:
- Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.Category:English terms with quotations#AWE
- A feeling of amazement.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.Category:English terms with quotations#AWE
- 2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:
- In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.Category:English terms with quotations#AWE
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#AWE) Power to inspire awe.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)Category:English lemmas#AWECategory:English verbs#AWECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#AWE) To inspire fear and reverence in.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.Category:English terms with quotations#AWE
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#AWE) To control by inspiring dread.
- 1982 August 21, Bob Nelson, “Harnessing Our Anger”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 6, page 5:
- While a sense of outrage is the only rational response to atrocity, if that outrage is maintained at too high a level over too long a time it can generate feelings of impotence, as we permit ourselves to be awed by this irrational act of violence.Category:English terms with quotations#AWE
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#AWECategory:English terms derived from French#AWE auve.
Noun
awe (plural awes)Category:English lemmas#AWECategory:English nouns#AWECategory:English countable nouns#AWECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
- (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#AWE) A bucket (blade) attached to water wheels.
Further reading
- “awe, n2.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
Category:English 3-letter words#AWEAnyi
Noun
aweCategory:Anyi lemmas#AWECategory:Anyi nouns#AWECategory:Anyi entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
- rice
- mɩn nin a tʋn awe.
- My mother prepared rice.
Baoule
Noun
aweCategory:Baoule lemmas#AWECategory:Baoule nouns#AWECategory:Baoule entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
Gun
Etymology
From Proto-GbeCategory:Gun terms inherited from Proto-Gbe#AWECategory:Gun terms derived from Proto-Gbe#AWE *-ve or Proto-GbeCategory:Gun terms inherited from Proto-Gbe#AWECategory:Gun terms derived from Proto-Gbe#AWE *-we.[1] Cognates include Fon àwè, Saxwe Gbe owè, Aja (West Africa) eve, Ewe eve
Pronunciation
Numeral
àwèCategory:Gun lemmas#AWECategory:Gun numerals#AWECategory:Gun entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
Adjective
àwèCategory:Gun lemmas#AWECategory:Gun adjectives#AWECategory:Gun entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
Related terms
| 1 - ɖòkpó, dòpó | 2 | 3 - atɔ̀n, atọ̀n | |
|---|---|---|---|
| cardinal number | àwè | ||
| ordinal number | àwètɔ́, àwètọ́ | ||
References
- ↑ Capo, Hounkpati B.C. (1991), A Comparative Phonology of Gbe (Publications in African Languages and Linguistics; 14), Berlin/New York; Garome, Benin: Foris Publications & Labo Gbe (Int), page 224
Māori
Etymology
From Proto-PolynesianCategory:Māori terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian#AWECategory:Māori terms derived from Proto-Polynesian#AWE *awe (“strand of hair”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈawe/ [ˈɐwɛ]Category:Māori terms with IPA pronunciation#AWE
Noun
aweCategory:Māori lemmas#AWECategory:Māori nouns#AWECategory:Māori entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
Further reading
Mapudungun
Adverb
aweCategory:Mapudungun lemmas#AWECategory:Mapudungun adverbs#AWECategory:Mapudungun entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE (Raguileo spelling)Category:Mapudungun Raguileo spellings#AWE
Synonyms
References
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle English
Etymology 1
Category:Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AWECategory:Middle English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂egʰ-#AWEBorrowed from Old NorseCategory:Middle English terms borrowed from Old Norse#AWECategory:Middle English terms derived from Old Norse#AWE agi, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#AWE *agaz, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Middle English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#AWE *h₂égʰos. Doublet of eyeCategory:Middle English doublets#AWE.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
aweCategory:Middle English lemmas#AWECategory:Middle English nouns#AWECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE (uncountableCategory:Middle English uncountable nouns#AWE)
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “aue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 April 2018.
Etymology 2
Adverb
aweCategory:Middle English alternative forms#AWECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
- alternative form of away
Etymology 3
Noun
aweCategory:Middle English alternative forms#AWECategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
- alternative form of ewe
Papiamentu
Alternative forms
- awé (alternative spelling)
Etymology
From PortugueseCategory:Papiamentu terms derived from Portuguese#AWE hoje and SpanishCategory:Papiamentu terms derived from Spanish#AWE hoy and KabuverdianuCategory:Papiamentu terms derived from Kabuverdianu#AWE ochi.
Pronoun
aweCategory:Papiamentu lemmas#AWECategory:Papiamentu pronouns#AWECategory:Papiamentu entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
Swahili
Verb
aweCategory:Swahili non-lemma forms#AWECategory:Swahili verb forms#AWECategory:Swahili entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
Tabaru
Pronunciation
Noun
aweCategory:Tabaru lemmas#AWECategory:Tabaru nouns#AWECategory:Tabaru entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
- a thread
References
- Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics
Tooro
Pronunciation
Pronoun
-awe (declinable)Category:Tooro lemmas#AWECategory:Tooro pronouns#AWECategory:Tooro possessive pronouns#AWECategory:Tooro entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
- your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)
Usage notes
- This modifier, when used in the indefinite forms, causes the word before it to lose its high tone.
Inflection
| Noun class | indefinite | definite | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| 1/2 | waawe | baawe | owaawe | abaawe |
| 3/4 | gwawe | yaawe | ogwawe | eyaawe |
| 5/6 | lyawe | gaawe | eryawe | agaawe |
| 7/8 | kyawe | byawe | ekyawe | ebyawe |
| 9/10 | yaawe | zaawe | eyaawe | ezaawe |
| 11/10 | rwawe | orwawe | ||
| 12/14 | kaawe | bwawe | akaawe | obwawe |
| 13 | — | twawe | — | otwawe |
| 14/6 | bwawe | gaawe | obwawe | agaawe |
| 15/6 | kwawe | okwawe | ||
| 16 | haawe | — | ahaawe | — |
| 18 | mwawe | omwawe | ||
See also
References
- Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 418-419
Western Arrernte
Pronunciation
Interjection
aweCategory:Western Arrernte lemmas#AWECategory:Western Arrernte interjections#AWECategory:Western Arrernte entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
Yoruba
Pronunciation
Noun
àwéCategory:Yoruba lemmas#AWECategory:Yoruba nouns#AWECategory:Yoruba entries with incorrect language header#AWECategory:Pages with entries#AWECategory:Pages with 14 entries#AWE
- friend
- an unknown person
- Táni àwé yẹn? ― Who is that unknown person?Category:Yoruba terms with usage examples#AWE
Usage notes
- More commonly used in Central Yoruba dialects
References
- Aremo, Bolaji (2012), How Yoruba and Igbo Became Different Languages, Scribo Publications, →ISBN