# agn
## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

### Noun

agn c (singular definite agnen, plural indefinite agne)
* bait

#### Declension
## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /akn/
* Rhymes: -akn

### Noun

agn n (genitive singular agns, plural øgn)
* bait

#### Synonyms

* (bait): beita f

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /akn/
* Rhymes: -akn

### Noun

agn n (genitive singular agns, nominative plural ögn)
* bait
    Synonym: beita

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Guus Kroonen (2013) “agana-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 3

## Ladin
### Noun

agn
* plural of ann

## Lombard
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɲ/

### Noun

agn
* plural of ann

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

### Noun

agn n (definite singular agnet, indefinite plural agn, definite plural agna or agnene)
* bait

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑŋn/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse agn. Attested in neutrum gender for Spydeberg dialect by Jacob Nicolai Wilse, in difference to Danish agn c.

#### Noun

agn n (definite singular agnet, indefinite plural agn, definite plural agna)
* (countable and uncountable) bait

### Etymology 2

From earlier ogn and Old Norse ǫgn (plural agnir), from Proto-Germanic *aganō, *ahanō.

#### Alternative forms

* ogn (non-standard since 1938)

#### Noun

agn f (definite singular agna, indefinite plural agner, definite plural agnene)
* husk
* (plural only) chaff

### References

* “agn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* ang, ang., gan

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *aganą (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

### Noun

agn n (genitive agns, plural ǫgn)
* (fishing) bait
    Synonym: beita

#### Derived terms

* agnsax (“bait-knife, knife used for cutting the bait when fishing”)
* egna (“to bait, fasten bait (on a hook)”)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: agn
* Faroese: agn
* Norwegian Nynorsk: agn
* Norwegian Bokmål: agn
* Swedish: agn
* Danish: agn

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “agn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse agn, from Proto-Germanic *agana- (“bait”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱH-ono-, same source as Sanskrit अश्नाति (aśnāti, “to eat”), Sanskrit अशन (aśana, “eating”), Ancient Greek ἄκολος (ákolos, “morsel”).

#### Noun

agn n
* bait for fishing

##### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | agn | agns |
| singular | definite | agnet | agnets |
| plural | indefinite | agn | agns |
| plural | definite | agnen | agnens |

##### Related terms

* agna (“to bait”)

##### See also

* bete

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse ǫgn, from Proto-Germanic *ahanō.

#### Noun

agn c
* husk
* (plural only) chaff

##### Derived terms

* skilja agnarna från vetet (“separate the wheat from the chaff”)
* skingras som agnar för vinden

### References

* agn in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* agn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* agn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* agn in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)