ágan

irreg v/t 3^rd pres áh/ágon past áhte ptp geágen 1. of possession, to own, possess, have, obtain; \ágan wælstówe geweald to obtain possession of the battlefield, conquer; 1a. of a husband's relation to his wife; sé þe him þás idese ágan wolde he who wanted to have this woman; 1b. to have control over, take charge of; 2. of accomplishment, to make another to own or possess, hence, to give, give up, deliver, restore; \ágan út to have or find out, discover; lǽteþ ágan út, hú fela to permit to find out, how many; 3. describing state or condition, to have need, etc.; híe scande ágon they have shame; 4. of obligation, to have to do something, to have to pay, owe; án áhte tó gieldenne peninges fíf hund one had to yield 500 pennies; 5. to make possessor of something?, endow with; þé ic ágan sceal I will surely endow thee; [ágan is the first of twelve Anglo-Saxon verbs - ágan, cunnan, dugan, durran, magan, mótan, munan, nugan, sculan, þurfan, unnan, witan, which are called preterite-presents, because they take their new infinitives and their present tenses from the perfects of strong verbs with their inflections. These new infinitives form their past tenses regularly in accordance with the weak conjugations. Thus, the new infinitive ágan has present ic, hé ág, þu áht, pl ágon; past áhte, pl áhton. The infinitive ágan and the present ág, pl ágon [for igon], retaining preterite inflections, are taken from the preterite of a strong verb, ascertained from ág [Goth. aih], which shows the á of the past singular in the eighth class of Grimm's division of strong verbs, and requires by analogy with other verbs of the same class, the infinitive ígan, the past plural igon, and the past participle igen. This we find the original verb ígan; past ág/igon; ptp igen. But in ágan the á of the singular indefiniteis kept in the plural, infinitive and past participle. The weak past áhte = aged, plural áhton = ágdon, are formed regularly from the weak infinitive ágan.] ; 6. pret 3^rd sing of onginnan