Middle English word age comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu-, Latin aevom, Proto-Italic *aiwom (Age.), Old Latin aivom (Age. Time, lifetime.), French -age, French aé, Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰlo-
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*h₂eyu- | Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro) | |
aevom | Latin (lat) | |
*aiwom | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | Age. |
aivom | Old Latin (itc-ola) | Age. Time, lifetime. |
-age | French (fra) | (rare) Forming collective nouns.. Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result of Xing" or, more rarely, "action related to X".. Forming nouns with the sense of "state of being (a) X". |
aé | French (fra) | |
*h₂egʰlo- | Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro) | |
aevus | Latin (lat) | |
*aiwotāts | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | Age. |
*h₂égʰos | Proto-Indo-European (ine-pro) | (emotional) distress. |
äage | French (fra) | |
*agaz | Proto-Germanic (gem-pro) | Fear; dread. |
agi | Old Norse (non) | |
aevum | Latin (lat) | (Medieval Latin, philosophy) aevum, the mean between time and eternity, aeviternity. Lifetime, age, generation. Time, eternity. |
*aetaticum | Latin (lat) | Age. |
aevitas | Latin (lat) | |
*aetaticum | Vulgar Latin (la-vul) | |
aage | Old French (fro) | Age. |
age | Anglo-Norman (xno) | |
age | Old French (fro) | |
age | Middle English (enm) |