aage

aage

1. Alternative form of age

aage m (plural aages)

1. Alternative form of eage

• aige, age, eage, edage

From earlier edage, from Vulgar Latin *aetaticum, from Latin aevitās (“age”), from aevus (“time, lifetime”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“lifetime”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 (aiws, “time, eternity”), Old High German ēwī (“eternity”), Old English ǣ (“life”), ā (“always”).

Alternatively a formation from Old French aé, eé (itself from Latin aetātem) + the suffix -age.

aage m (oblique plural aages, nominative singular aages, nominative plural aage)

1. age
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, 'Érec et Énide':

     Onques nus hon de son aage
     Ne fu de greignor vasselage.

     Never us, men of their age
     We did not deal with the biggest vassalage.

• French: âge
• → Middle English: age
  • English: age