# awe
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: ô, IPA: /ɔː/
** Audio:(file)
* (US) enPR: ô, IPA: /ɔ/
* (cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA: /ɑ/
** Audio:(file)
* Homophones: aw; oar, or, ore, o'er (non-rhotic)
* Rhymes: -ɔː

### Etymology 1

From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.

#### Noun

awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)
* A feeling of fear and reverence.
** 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 172:Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
* A feeling of amazement.
** 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
* (archaic) Power to inspire awe.

##### Derived terms

* aweful
* awe-inspiring
* aweless
* awesome
* awestricken
* awestrike
* awestruck
* awe walk
* awful
* inawe
* overawe
* shock and awe
* underawe

##### Translations
#### Verb

awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)
* (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
** 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
* (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.
** 1982 August 21, Bob Nelson, “Harnessing Our Anger”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 6, page 5:While a sense of outrage is the only rational response to atrocity, if that outrage is maintained at too high a level over too long a time it can generate feelings of impotence, as we permit ourselves to be awed by this irrational act of violence.

##### Synonyms

* (inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm

##### Derived terms

* awed

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From French auve.

#### Noun

awe (plural awes)
* (obsolete) A bucket (blade) attached to water wheels.

#### Further reading

* “awe, n2.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* AEW, EAW, WAE, WEA, eaw, wae

## Anyi
### Noun

awe
* rice
    mɩn nin a tʋn awe.My mother prepared rice.

## Baoule
### Noun

awe
* hunger

## Gun
### Etymology

From Proto-Gbe *-ve or Proto-Gbe *-we. Cognates include Fon àwè, Saxwe Gbe owè, Adja eve, Ewe eve

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.wè/
* Audio (Nigeria):(file)

### Numeral

àwè
* two

### Adjective

àwè
* two

#### Related terms

| | 1 - ɖòkpó, dòpó | 2 | 3 - atɔ̀n, atọ̀n |
| cardinal number | àwè | àwè | àwè |
| ordinal number | àwètɔ́, àwètọ́ | àwètɔ́, àwètọ́ | àwètɔ́, àwètọ́ |

## Maori
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

awe
* soot
* white feather

### Further reading

* “awe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Mapudungun
### Adverb

awe (Raguileo spelling)
* quickly, promptly.
* soon

#### Synonyms

* arol

### References

* Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égʰos. Doublet of eye.

#### Alternative forms

* age, aghe, aȝe, ahe, au, aue, aw

#### Pronunciation

* (Early Middle English) IPA: /ˈaɣ̞ə/
* IPA: /ˈau̯(ə)/
* Rhymes: -au̯(ə)

#### Noun

awe (uncountable)
* awe, wonder, reverence
* fear, horror
* that which elicits or incites horror; something horrifying

##### Related terms

* agheful
* aghlich (rare)
* awles (rare)
* awen (rare)

##### Descendants

* English: awe
* Scots: awe, aw

#### References

* “aue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.

### Etymology 2
#### Adverb

awe
* Alternative form of away

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

awe
* Alternative form of ewe

## Papiamentu
### Alternative forms

* awé (alternative spelling)

### Etymology

From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.

### Pronoun

awe
* today

## Swahili
### Verb

awe
* inflection of -wa:
** third-person singular subjunctive affirmative
** m-wa class subject inflected singular subjunctive affirmative

## Tabaru
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈa.we]

### Noun

awe
* a thread

### References

* Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

## Tooro
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /áːwe/

### Pronoun

-awe (declinable)
* your (second-person singular possessive pronoun)

#### Usage notes

* This modifier, when used in the indefinite forms, causes the word before it to lose its high tone.

#### See also

| Class | Person | Independent | Possessive | Subject concord | Object concord | Combined forms | Combined forms |
| Class | Person | Independent | Possessive | Subject concord | Object concord | na | ni |
| Class 1 | First | nyowe, nye | -ange | n- | -n- | nanyowe, nanye | ninyowe, ninye |
| Class 1 | Second | iwe | -awe | o- | -ku- | naiwe | niiwe |
| Class 1 | Third | uwe | -e | a- | -mu- | nawe | nuwe |
| Class 2 | First | itwe | -aitu | tu- | -tu- | naitwe | niitwe |
| Class 2 | Second | inywe | -anyu | mu- | -ba- | nainywe | niinywe |
| Class 2 | Third | abo | -abo | ba- | -ba- | nabo | nubo |
| Class 3 | Class 3 | gwo | -agwo | gu- | -gu- | nagwo | nugwo |
| Class 4 | Class 4 | yo | -ayo | e- | -gi- | nayo | niyo |
| Class 5 | Class 5 | lyo | -alyo | li- | -li- | nalyo | niryo |
| Class 6 | Class 6 | go | -ago | ga- | -ga- | nago | nugo |
| Class 7 | Class 7 | kyo | -akyo | ki- | -ki- | nakyo | nikyo |
| Class 8 | Class 8 | byo | -abyo | bi- | -bi- | nabyo | nibyo |
| Class 9 | Class 9 | yo | -ayo | e- | -gi- | nayo | niyo |
| Class 10 | Class 10 | zo | -azo | zi- | -zi- | nazo | nizo |
| Class 11 | Class 11 | rwo | -arwo | ru- | -ru- | narwo | nurwo |
| Class 12 | Class 12 | ko | -ako | ka- | -ka- | nako | nuko |
| Class 13 | Class 13 | two | -atwo | tu- | -tu- | natwo | nutwo |
| Class 14 | Class 14 | bwo | -abwo | bu- | -bu- | nabwo | nubwo |
| Class 15 | Class 15 | kwo | -akwo | ku- | -ku- | nakwo | nukwo |
| Class 16 | Class 16 | ho | -aho | ha- | -ha- | naho | nuho |
| Class 17 | Class 17 | (kwo) | N/A | ha- (...-yo) | -ha- | N/A | nukwo |
| Class 18 | Class 18 | (mwo) | -amwo | ha- (...-mu) | -ha- | N/A | numwo |
| Reflexive | Reflexive | -enyini, -onyini | — | — | -e- | — | — |

### References

* Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary‎, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 418-419

## Western Arrernte
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /awə/

### Interjection

awe
* yes

## Yoruba
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.wé/

### Noun

àwé
* friend
    Synonyms: ọ̀rẹ́, olùkù
* an unknown person
    Táni àwé yẹn? ― Who is that unknown person?

#### Usage notes

* More commonly used in Central Yoruba dialects

### References

* Aremo, Bolaji (2012) How Yoruba and Igbo Became Different Languages‎, Scribo Publications, →ISBN