agg

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See also: ägg and agg.

English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

agg (not comparable)

  1. Clipping of aggravated.

Noun[edit]

agg (uncountable)

  1. (sports) Clipping of aggregate. (the total score in a set of games between teams or competitors, usually the combination of the home and away scores)

Verb[edit]

agg (third-person singular simple present aggs, present participle agging, simple past and past participle agged)

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of egg (“encourage”)
    • 1923, Lucy S. Furman, The Quare Women: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains, page 38:
      And as for Cynthy, his maw, she won't hardly speak to me; and, though she is my offspring, is the bitter-heartedest and keen-tonguedest woman hit ever was my lot to meet up with. But for her agging him on, hit is my belief Fulty never would [do anything].

Anagrams[edit]

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒɡː]
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡː

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Uralic *soŋkɜ (“old, to grow old”).[1] [2]

Adjective[edit]

agg (not comparable)

  1. (literary) very old, aged
    See synonyms at öreg.
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative agg aggok
accusative aggot aggokat
dative aggnak aggoknak
instrumental aggal aggokkal
causal-final aggért aggokért
translative aggá aggokká
terminative aggig aggokig
essive-formal aggként aggokként
essive-modal — —
inessive aggban aggokban
superessive aggon aggokon
adessive aggnál aggoknál
illative aggba aggokba
sublative aggra aggokra
allative agghoz aggokhoz
elative aggból aggokból
delative aggról aggokról
ablative aggtól aggoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		aggé aggoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		aggéi aggokéi
Derived terms[edit]
Compound words

Noun[edit]

agg (plural aggok)

  1. old man
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative agg aggok
accusative aggot aggokat
dative aggnak aggoknak
instrumental aggal aggokkal
causal-final aggért aggokért
translative aggá aggokká
terminative aggig aggokig
essive-formal aggként aggokként
essive-modal — —
inessive aggban aggokban
superessive aggon aggokon
adessive aggnál aggoknál
illative aggba aggokba
sublative aggra aggokra
allative agghoz aggokhoz
elative aggból aggokból
delative aggról aggokról
ablative aggtól aggoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		aggé aggoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		aggéi aggokéi
Possessive forms of agg
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. aggom aggjaim
2nd person sing. aggod aggjaid
3rd person sing. aggja aggjai
1st person plural aggunk aggjaink
2nd person plural aggotok aggjaitok
3rd person plural aggjuk aggjaik

Etymology 2[edit]

Same word as above. *soŋ(k)ɜ could have been both a noun and a verb, even if it has no verbal cognates. But it was influenced by aggódik (“to worry”).

Alternative forms[edit]

Verb[edit]

agg

  1. (intransitive, dialectal) to shrivel, shrink, diminish (to become smaller, denser, or more compact)
  2. (intransitive, poetic) to worry, to be anxious
  3. (intransitive, dated) to age, grow old
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of agg
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal 		3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal 		3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. aggok aggasz agg aggunk aggotok agganak
Def. intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
2nd-p. o. ―
Past Indef. aggottam aggottál aggott aggottunk aggottatok aggottak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Condi­tional
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. agganék agganál aggana agganánk agganátok agganának
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Sub­junc­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. aggjak aggj or
aggjál 		aggjon aggjunk aggjatok aggjanak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Infinitive aggani agganom agganod aggania agganunk agganotok agganiuk
Other nonfinite
verb forms 		Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
aggás aggó aggott ― aggva agghat

See also its conjugation table at E-Szókincs.

Derived terms[edit]

(With verbal prefixes):

See also[edit]

  • aggat (“to hang, append, attach [multiple things]”) (related to akaszt)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Entry #907 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary.
  2. ^ agg in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading[edit]

  • (very old): agg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (to shrink, to worry, to age): agg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • agg in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse aga (“to threaten”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“fear, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be depressed, afraid”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “distress, pain”), English ey and awe.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

agg n (definite singular agget, uncountable)

  1. enmity, ill will (often implying that the enmity is hidden)

Further reading[edit]

Scots[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Derived from Old Norse eggja.

Verb[edit]

(Shetland) agg (third-person singular simple present aggs, present participle aggin, simple past agged, past participle agged)

  1. to drive towards or against the shore
  2. to be driven shorewards
  3. to irritate (by teasing)

Further reading[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse aga (“to threaten”), from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“fear, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be depressed, afraid”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “distress, pain”), English ey and awe.

Noun[edit]

agg n

  1. aversion, grudge, hate

Declension[edit]

Declension of agg 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative agg agget — —
Genitive aggs aggets — —

Westrobothnian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse *ǫggr, from Proto-Germanic *aʒw-.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

agg

  1. Inside out.[1][3][4][2][5][6]
    aggsíða
    the reverse side
  2. Averse, irate, angry.[2][5]

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Svenska landsmål och Svenskt folkliv, 1891, page 121
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Lindgren, J. V., 1940, “'*agg etc.”, in Orbok över Burträskmålet, page 2
  3. ^ Stenberg, Pehr, Widmark, Gusten “agg a ăgg”, “agga f indecl.sgt. āgg”, in Ordbok över Umemålet [Dictionary of the Umeå speech], →ISBN, page 5
  4. ^ Rietz, Johan Ernst, “AGG”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 3
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nyström, Jan-Olov, 1993, Ordbok över lulemålet, page 205, 206
  6. ^ Marklund, Thorsten, 1986, Skelleftemålet: grammatik och ordlista : för lekmän - av lekman [The Skellefteå speech: grammar and vocabulary: for laymen - by a layman], →ISBN, page 73
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