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From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *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.
- (UK) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /ɔː/
- (US) enPR: ô, IPA(key): /ɔ/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA(key): /ɑ/
- Homophones: aw; oar, or, ore, o'er (non-rhotic)
- Rhymes: -ɔː
awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)
- A feeling of fear and reverence.
2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, 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.
- 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.
- (archaic) Power to inspire awe.
feeling of fear and reverence
- Bulgarian: страхопочитание (bg) (strahopočitanie), благоговение (bg) (blagogovenie)
- Catalan: temor (ca) m, paüra (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: strach (cs) m, hrůza (cs) f
- Danish: ærefrygt c
- Dutch: ontzag (nl) n, vrees (nl) f
- Finnish: syvä kunnioitus, kunnioittava pelko, pelko (fi), pelonsekainen kunnioitus
- French: crainte (fr) f, révérence (fr) f
- German: Ehrfurcht (de) f
- Greek: δέος (el) n (déos), σέβας (el) n (sévas)
- Ancient: ἄγος m (ágos)
- Hungarian: áhítat (hu), félelem (hu), tisztelet (hu), megilletődés (hu), megilletődöttség
- Italian: timore (it) m
- Latin: formido f
- Macedonian: стравопо́чит f (stravopóčit)
- Norwegian:
- Polish: groza (pl) f, trwoga (pl) f
- Portuguese: temor (pt) m
- Russian: благогове́ние (ru) n (blagogovénije), тре́пет (ru) m (trépet)
- Serbo-Croatian: strahopoštovanje (sh) n
- Slovak: bázeň f, úcta hraničiaca so strachom
- Spanish: pavor (es) m, temor (es) m, medrosía f
- Swedish: fruktan (sv) c, bävan (sv)
- Turkish: huşu (tr)
awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)
- (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days[2]:
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.
- (transitive) 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.
to inspire fear and reverence
- Bulgarian: внушавам страхопочитание (vnušavam strahopočitanie)
- Czech: vyděsit (cs) pf, vyvolat hrůzu
- Dutch: ontzag inboezemen
- Finnish: pelottaa (fi), herättää pelkoa, herättää kunnioitusta
- Greek: προκαλώ δέος (prokaló déos), καταπλήσσω (el) (kataplísso)
- Hungarian: áhítattal/félelemmel/tisztelettel tölt el, áhítatot/félelmet/megilletődést kelt, tiszteletet parancsol, lenyűgöz (hu)
- Persian: نهازیدن (fa) (nehâzidan)
- Russian: внуша́ть тре́пет (vnušátʹ trépet), внуша́ть благогове́ние (vnušátʹ blagogovénije)
- Slovak: budiť rešpekt
- Spanish: asombrar (es), abrumar (es), zozobrar (es), desasosegar (es), desosegar (es)
- Turkish: huşu uyandırmak, huşulandırmak
to control by inspiring dread
awe
- rice
mɩn nin a tʋn awe.
- My mother prepared rice.
awe
From Proto-Gbe *-ve or Proto-Gbe *-we. Cognates include Fon àwè, Saxwe Gbe owè, Adja eve, Ewe eve
àwè
àwè
1 - ɖòkpó, dòpó | 2 | 3 - atɔ̀n, atọ̀n | |
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cardinal number | àwè | ||
ordinal number | àwètɔ́, àwètọ́ |
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
awe
awe (Raguileo spelling)
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égʰos. Doublet of eye.
awe (uncountable)
- “aue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.
awe
- Alternative form of away
awe
- Alternative form of ewe
- awé (alternative spelling)
From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.
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awe
awe
- a thread
- 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
-awe (declinable)
- your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)
- This modifier, when used in the indefinite forms, causes the word before it to lose its high tone.
awe
àwé
- More commonly used in Central Yoruba dialects