eage

Middle French

Alternative forms

• aage, age

Noun

eage m (plural eages)

1. age (amount of time something has existed)

Old English

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Alternative forms

• ēge — Anglian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ͜ɑː.ɡe/, [ˈæ͜ɑː.ɣe]

Noun

ēage n

1. eye
   • 890-897 [c. 590], Pope Gregory I, chapter XXXVIII, in Alfred the Great, transl., Cura Pastoralis (Hatton manuscript, fol. 51r), translation of Cura Pastoralis (in Latin), lines 273.9:

     ⁊ behald ðīn ēagean ⁊ ðīn ēaran

     and occupy your eyes and ears

   • 890-897 [c. 590], Pope Gregory I, chapter XXXIX, in Alfred the Great, transl., Cura Pastoralis (Hatton manuscript, fol. 53v), translation of Cura Pastoralis (in Latin), lines 287.12:

     Ac lǣt simle gān ðīn ēagean beforan ðīnum fōtum

     But always let your eyes go before your feet

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	ēage	ēagan
accusative	ēage	ēagan
genitive	ēagan	ēagena
dative	ēagan	ēagum

Derived terms

• dæġes ēage (“daisy”)
• ēagæppel (“eyeball”)
• ēaghring (“eye socket”)
• ēagþȳrel (“window”)
• -īeġe (“-eyed”)

Descendants

• Middle English: eye, e, eȝe, ei, eie, eighe, eyghe, eyȝe, iȝe, yȝe, ye, yë, yghe, eȝhe (Ormulum), ehe (AB language)
  • English: eye (see there for further descendants)

    Geordie: ee, eye

  • Middle Scots: ee, e, E (mainly early), ei, eie, eye (after Early Modern English), eae, eee, ie (rare)
    • Scots: ee, eh

See also

• brū (“eyelash”)
• brǣw (“eyelid”)
• oferbrū (“eyebrow”)
• sēo (“pupil”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• edage (archaic)
• aage, aaige, aege, aige, age, agee, eaage

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, from Latin aetātem. Alternatively formed within Old French from eé +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /əˈðad͡ʒə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /əˈad͡ʒə/, /aˈad͡ʒə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈaːʒə/

Noun

eage oblique singular, m or f (oblique plural eages, nominative singular eages, nominative plural eage)

1. age (of a person)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Onques nus hon de son aage
     Ne fu de greignor vasselage.

     Never was a man of his age
     Of greater courage.

   Synonym: eé

2. age (era)
3. (Anglo-Norman, law) coming of age
   1. date of coming of age

Descendants

• Angevin: age m or f
• Champenois: aige
• Franc-Comtois: aîdge, adge, edze m
• Gallo: age m or f
• Lorrain: edge m, eche, ache, èje f
• Middle French: âge m or f
  • French: âge m
    • → Catalan: atge m
• Norman: age m or f, âge f
• Orléanais: age m
• Picard: age m or f, ache, aje f
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: age m or f, ah, agh' m, âge f
• Walloon: atche m, ådje f
• → Middle English: age, aage, ayge (both rare)
  • English: age
  • Scots: age
• → Old Occitan: atge m
  • → Occitan: atge m

References

• “eage”, in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022–2025
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “aetas”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 237