adj., v. (pp.)
'frightened' (Modern English awed)
PGmc Ancestor
*ag-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
agi ‘(n.) dread, awe; discipline; enmity’
(ONP agi (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
OE Cognate
cp. ege (n.) ‘fear, awe’
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
C1c
MED gives a handful of citations of the v. from a few scattered sources, beginning with c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel). The n. on which it is formed is N and E in earlier ME (first recorded in Orrm), but shows signs of wider acceptance by the later period (incl. Chaucer, in rhyme): see further McGee 507.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
WA 3635