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( metrology ) Symbol for attogram , anSI unit ofmass equal to 10−18 grams .Clipping ofagriculture oragricultural .
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( chiefly in compounds ) Clipping ofagriculture .He got his degree from the stateag college.
My class is over onag campus.
Clipping ofaggregate .
ag (countable anduncountable ,plural ags )
( construction ) Clipping ofaggregate ( small rocks mixed into concrete ) .The mix should include a good selection of large, medium, and smallag .
If the mix is too fluid, theags can sink away from the surface.
Borrowed fromAfrikaans ag , fromDutch ach .
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( South Africa ) Expressing annoyance, remorse, surprise etc.;oh ,ah .1962 , Jeremy Taylor, “Ag Pleez Deddy ”:Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see anou called Sky High Lee1979 ,André Brink ,A Dry White Season , Vintage, published1998 , page88 :‘Ag , fuck it,’ he said. ‘Let bygones be bygones, man.’
1994 , Nelson Mandela,Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela , London:Abacus , published2010 , page491 :Finally, after placing four books on the desk, he turned to a sheepish Kathy and said, ‘Ag , there's nothing wrong with these desks,’ and walked out.
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( Stenoscript ) Abbreviation ofagain .ag (plural ags )
Alternativeletter-case form ofAG ( “ aggressive (butch) ” ) 2016 February 26, Laura Horak,Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 , Rutgers University Press,→ISBN , page224 :new forms of female masculinity are exploding, ranging from butches, dykes, and studs to transmen, FTMs,ags , genderqueers, individuals masculine-of-center, and many more. Transgender men and masculine women can make their own movies [ …]
2016 June 10, Roberta Uno,Monologues for Actors of Color: Men , Routledge,→ISBN , page85 :I don't know what I'd do without them (smiles) Sometimes, I wonder why studs/ag's /butches/transguys be grilling one another in the club. I mean, in my mind, I'm like Why would you hate someone who look like you, act like you, [ …]
2017 July 31, Eric Friginal,Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics , Routledge,→ISBN :The context around stud enables us to understand its meaning among the W4W advertisers: Seeking lesbian stud, butch,ag , or tomboish women ONLY I'm a single stud (on the soft side) slim body type, tattoos, cute face, and great smile [ …]
FromDutch acht .
ag (plural agte )
esteem eight FromDutch achten .
ag (present ag ,present participle agtende ,past participle geag )
toregard ; todeem Ekag hom as 'n belangrike bate in ons maatskappy. Ideem him as an important asset in our company. Hy word hooggeag . He is highlyregarded . toheed FromDutch ach . Equivalent ofGerman ach andEnglish oh .
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oh ,oh no ,shoot ,damn ,oh dear ag
Alternative form ofagt Inherited fromProto-Albanian *(h)aug- , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (compareAncient Greek αὐγή ( augḗ ,“ daylight, splendor ” ) ,Serbo-Croatian jȕg ( “ south ” ) .[ 1]
ag m (plural agje , definite agu , definite plural agjet )
dawn ,daybreak ,predawn lightsemi-darkness ,fog shine pupils ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997 )Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: [ … ] ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page72 ag
and Synonym: sagkëd IPA (key ) : /ˈʔaɡ/ [ˈʔɐɡ] Rhymes:-aɡ Syllabification:ag ag (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜤ᜴ )
and Synonym: kag Conklin, Harold C. (1953 )Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press,→OCLC ,page20 ag
water FromMiddle Irish oc ,ac ,ic , fromOld Irish oc ,occ . CompareScottish Gaelic aig .
( particle ) : IPA (key ) : /ə/ before a consonantIPA (key ) : /əɡ/ beforea, á, o, ó, u, ú IPA (key ) : /əɟ/ beforee, é, i, í ( preposition ) : IPA (key ) : /ɛɟ/ ,/ɪɟ/ ag
particle used with theverbal noun to mark theprogressive aspect :ag siúl ―walking ag gáire ―laughing ag ithe ―eating ag ól ―drinking ag (plus dative ,triggers no mutation )
at of ,for ( after certain adjectives ) Bhí sé go deasag Cáit a dhul leat. It was nice of Cáit to go with you. Tá sé éascaagat sin a rá. It’s easy for you to say that. of ( after an indication of quantity ) Tá go leoracu anseo. There are plenty of them here. Tá duineagainn tinn. One of us is ill. of ( to indicate possession emphatically, used after a noun qualified byseo ( “ this ” ) orsin ( “ that ” ) ) an teach seoagainne ―this house of ours na bróga sinagatsa ―those shoes of yours used with forms ofbí ( “ to be ” ) to indicate possession in place of a verb meaning ‘have ’ Tá teachag Seán. Seán has a house. used with forms ofbí ( “ to be ” ) and a past participle to indicate a perfect tense Tá an teach péinteáilteag Seán. Seán has painted the house. used with forms ofbí ( “ to be ” ) to indicate ability to do something Tá Spáinnisagam . I can speak Spanish. Tá ceolagam . I can make music. Reduced form ofchuig , assimilated in all forms to Etymology 1.
ag (plus dative ,triggers no mutation )
( colloquial ) Alternative form ofchuig ( “ to( a person or place ) ” ) Tá mé ag dulag an dochtúr. I’m going to the doctor Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “ag ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904 ) “ag”, inFoclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla , 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society,page 7 Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “oc ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language “ag ”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge,2013-2025 ag
they ;them (masculine)ag
masculine plural markerTopẽ vỹẽprã ke ag to há nĩ.God loves the human beings. Ursula Gojtéj Wiesemann (2011 ) “ag”, inDicionário Kaingang-Português Português-Kaingang [4] , 2nd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Curitiba: Editora Esperança, page13 .Korlai Creole Portuguese [ edit ] FromPortuguese água .
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water FromProto-Celtic *agos ( “ cow ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₁ǵʰós . CompareOld Armenian եզն ( ezn ) ,Sanskrit अही ( ahī́ ) .
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bullock ,cow ,ox deer ,stag Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationIrish:agh Scottish Gaelic:agh ‘heifer’ Mutation ofag radical lenition nasalization ag ( pronounced with/h/ inh -prothesis environments ) unchanged n-ag
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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crossbow (bow).arrow .ag
carbuncle ,ulcer ,tumor .Derived fromOld Norse eggja .
ag (plural ags )( Shetland )
Thewash ofwaves on the sea-shore as by a steady wind from the sea. foam near theshore stir ,eagerness ag (third-person singular simple present ags ,present participle agin ,simple past aged ,past participle aged )
Shetland form ofagg ( “ to drive ” ) ag (third-person singular simple present ags ,present participle agin ,simple past aged ,past participle aged )
Shetland form ofak ( “ to feel sick ” ) IPA (key ) : /aɡ/
Contraction ofaig
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Used before the verbal noun to form the present participle. Bha Seumasag obair. ―James was working. This is the form used before a vowel. Before consonants it contracts toa' . The sole exception isag ràdh ( “ saying ” ) . (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
ag m (genitive singular agaig or aig ,no plural )
doubt hesitation ag (past dh'ag ,future agidh ,verbal noun agadh )
hesitate doubt Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
FromOld Swedish ag ,agh ( “ Cladium ” ) .
ag c
grass of the genusCladium especially, of speciesCladium mariscus (great fen-sedge ,swamp sawgrass ). varioussedges andrushes outside genusCladium , e.g. in generaJuncus (rushes ) andSchoenus (bog rushes )Synonym: tåg (Juncus ) ag!
oh ! cry ofpain orsurprise ah ! cry of surpriseFromOld Welsh (h)ac ‘and’, fromProto-Brythonic *atkʷe , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂ét -kʷe (compareBreton hag andCornish hag ); identical to Latinatque . Doublet ofWelsh ac .
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with ( used before vowels ) Unlikeâ ,ag does not cause an aspirate mutation in the following word.
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with