Old English · noun

agu

Part of speech: noun, feminine
Declension: strong ō-stem
IPA: /ˈɑ.ɡu/
[ˈɑ.ɣu]
Syllables: ˈɑ · ɡu (2 syllables)
Modern English: magpie

Meaning

magpie

Declension

Declension of agu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	agu	aga age
Accusative	age	aga age
Genitive	age	aga
Dative	age	agum

All forms (4)

agu
aga
age
agum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *agu, further etymology unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oḱ-éh₂, from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”); however, the variant *ag-ad- ~ *ag-at- perhaps points to a substrate borrowing, cf. *magaþ (“girl”).

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