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, dialectal) Alternative spelling of again: against.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 67:

     Mrs Dibble was resentful and peevish at having been trounced into employing old Peter. "You ought to pay that yourself, having took him on agen my wishes."

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

From Dutch agent, from French agent, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agens.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈaɡɛn/ [ˈa.ɡɛn]
• Rhymes: -aɡɛn
• Syllabification: a‧gen

agèn (plural agen-agen)

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. (espionage) 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
   5. (linguistics, grammar) the participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation

      Synonym: pelaku

• agens (biology, linguistics, grammar)
• agén (biology, chemistry, Standard Malay)
• éjén (person, Standard Malay)

• “agen”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), 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 19 January 2019.

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

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...

   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCCXIII Hēr Wulfrēd arċebisċeop mid bletsunge Leon þǣs papan hwearf eft tō his āgnum bisċeopdōme. ⁊ þȳ ġēare ġehergode Eċġbriht cing on Westwēalas frām ēasteweardum ōþ westwearde.

     Year 813 In this year Archbishop Wulfred returned to his own bishopdom with the blessing of Pope Leo [III]. And in that year King Edgebright ravaged the Celts of Cornwall from the east to the west.

• 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, 2004–present, →OCLC.

agen

1. third-person plural present indicative of agir

From English again.

• IPA^(key): /aɡeŋ/, /aɡen/, [a̠ɟɪ̞̃ŋ], [ɑ̟je̝ŋ]

agen

1. again

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

   Synonyms: rhaniad, hollt, crac

2. gap, slit, slot

   Synonyms: bwlch, adwy, rhych

• agen tagell (“gill slit”)
• agendor (“chasm, gulf”)
• agennog, agennol (“cleft”, adjective)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “agen”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• Delyth Prys; J.P.M. Jones; Owain Davies; Gruffudd Prys (2006), Y Termiadur: termau wedi'u safoni; standardised terminology‎^[1] (in Welsh), Cardiff: Awdurdod cymwysterau, cwricwlwm ac asesu Cymru (Qualifications curriculum & assessment authority for Wales), →ISBN
• 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