# agen
## English
### Etymology

Variant of again.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: əgĕn

### Adverb

agen (not comparable)
* Obsolete spelling of again.
** 1832-1837, John Clare, Approaching Night
    O, how I long to be agen
    That poor and independent man,
    With labour's lot from morn to night
    And books to read at candle light;

### Preposition

agen
* (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative spelling of again: against.
** 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 67:Mrs Dibble was resentful and peevish at having been trounced into employing old Peter. "You ought to pay that yourself, having took him on agen my wishes."

### Anagrams

* Agne, Ange, Egan, Gean, Gena, gean, gena, nega-

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch agent, from French agent, from Latin agēns. Doublet of agens.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈaɡɛn/ [ˈa.ɡɛn]
* Rhymes: -aɡɛn
* Syllabification: a‧gen

### Noun

agèn (plural agen-agen)
* agent:
** (economics, management, trading) one who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from them; someone entrusted to do the business of another.
    Synonyms: dalal, penghubung, perantara, wakil jual, bandar, pengedar, pemasok, penyalur
** (espionage) someone who works for an intelligence agency.
** (biology, chemistry) an active power or cause or substance; something (e.g. biological, chemical, thermal, etc.) that has the power to produce an effect.
    Synonyms: bahan, penyebab
** (drama) a person who looks for work for another person.
** (linguistics, grammar) the participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation.
    Synonym: pelaku

#### Alternative forms

* (biological, linguistics/grammar): agens
* (biological, chemical): agén (Standard Malay)
* (person): éjén (Standard Malay)

#### Derived terms

* keagenan
* mengageni
* agen aerasi
* agen anabolik
* agen asuransi
* agen bebas
* agen buku
* agen elektronik
* agen federal
* agen ganda
* agen kargo
* agen kemoterapi
* agen klaim
* agen muatan
* agen mutagen
* agen pabrik
* agen pelawatan
* agen pemain
* agen pembaruan
* agen pembasah
* agen pembayar
* agen pembayaran pembantu
* agen pembelian
* agen pemoliploid
* agen pengarang
* agen pengelat
* agen pengemulsi
* agen pengguna
* agen penjamin
* agen penjualan
* agen penyalur
* agen perawat
* agen perjalanan
* agen perjalanan wisata
* agen polisi
* agen properti
* agen publisitas
* agen rahasia
* agen resmi
* agen siasat
* agen sitotastik
* agen tiket
* agen tunggal
* agen tunggal pemegang merek
* agen utama pembayaran
* agen wol

### Further reading

* “agen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

agen
* Alternative form of awen

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French aagier; equivalent to age +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaːd͡ʒən/

#### Verb

agen
* (usually in the past participle) to become older; to age.

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

##### Descendants

* English: age
* Scots: age

##### References

* “āǧen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.

## Old English
### Etymology 1

Variant of Old English ongēan (“again, eft, back”).

#### Pronunciation

IPA: /ɑˈjeːn/

#### Preposition

aġēn
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* against, contra
    Se þe nis aġēn ēow, se is for ēow.Who is not against you, is for you.
    Þīn brōðor hæfþ ǣnig þing aġēn þē.Thy brother hath ought against thee.

#### Adverb

aġēn
* again, anew
    Þe þē slihþ on þīn gewenge, wend ōðer aġēn.Who strikes thee on thine cheek, offer also the other.
    Þā wende hē on scype aġēn.Then he went into the ship again.

#### Prefix

aġēn
* again, eft, back

##### Derived terms

* aġēnbewendan (“to return”)
* aġēncuman (“to come back”)
* aġēnġecyrran (“to turn again, recur”)
* aġēnġehweorfan (“to change again, return”)
* agēnhwyrfan (“to turn again, return (agen-whirl)”)
* aġēniernan (“to run against, meet”)
* aġēnlǣdan (“to lead back”)
* aġēnsendan (“to send back”)
* aġēnstandan (“to stand against, urge, insist upon”)
* aġēnyrnan (“to run into, meet with, meet”)

### Etymology 2

Literally ‘owned’: originally the past participle of āgan. Corresponding to Old Dutch eigan (Dutch eigen), Old High German eigan (German eigen), Old Norse eiginn (Swedish egen).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑː.ɡen/, [ˈɑː.ɣen]

#### Adjective

āgen
* own
** Godes āgen bearn. ― God’s own child. (Cædmon’s Metrical Paraphrase)
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "On Auguries"
    Þas twa gesceafta habbað gesceadwisnysse and ælc man hæfð agenne freodom...These two creations possess reason, and every man hath his own freedom...
** The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
    An. DCCCXIII Hēr Wulfrēd arċebisċeop mid bletsunge Leon þǣs papan hwearf eft tō his āgnum bisċeopdōme. ⁊ þȳ ġēare ġehergode Eċġbriht cing on Westwēalas frām ēasteweardum ōþ westwearde.Year 813 In this year Archbishop Wulfred returned to his own bishopdom with the blessing of Pope Leo [III]. And in that year King Edgebright ravaged the Celts of Cornwall from the east to the west.

##### Declension

* Note that а̄gen is almost always declined strong.

##### Derived terms

* āgend (“owner”)
* āgennama (“proper name”)
* āgennes (“property”)
* āgenslaga (“one who commits suicide”)
* āgenspræċ (“one's own tongue, an idiom, the peculiarity of a language, idioma”)
* āgenung (“owner”)

##### Related terms

* āgnian
* āgan

##### Descendants

* Middle English: aghen, oghn, aȝen, oȝen, awen, owen
** English: own
** Scots: awn, ain

#### Noun

agen n (nominative plural āgen)
* property, house
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Agnes, Virgin"
    se fæder and seo modor mid mycelre blysse gelæhton hyre lic and gelæddon to heora agenum,...Her father and her mother, with great joy, took her body, and brought it to their own house,...

## Scots
### Adverb

agen (not comparable)
* Alternative form of again

### References

* “agen, adv., prep., conj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Spanish
### Verb

agen
* third-person plural present indicative of agir

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English again.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈɡeŋ/, /aˈɡen/, [a̠ˈɟɪ̞ŋ], [ɑ̟ˈje̝ŋ]

### Adverb

agen
* again

## Swedish
### Noun

agen
* definite singular of ag

### Anagrams

* Agne, ange, egna, gena

## Welsh
### Etymology

From gagen (“cleft, slit”)

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈaɡɛn/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈa(ː)ɡɛn/

### Noun

agen f (plural agennau)
* cleft, fissure
    Synonyms: raniad, hollt, crac
* gap, slit, slot
    Synonyms: bwlch, adwy, rhych

#### Derived terms

* agendor (“chasm, gulf”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “agen”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh-English Dictionary, Gwerin
* Delyth Prys, J.P.M. Jones, Owain Davies, Gruffudd Prys (2006) Y Termiadur: termau wedi'u safoni; standardised terminology‎ (in Welsh), Cardiff: Awdurdod cymwysterau, cwricwlwm ac asesu Cymru (Qualifications curriculum & assessment authority for Wales), →ISBN
* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “agen”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies