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agu

Pronunciation: /ˈɑ.ɡu/

“agu” is an Old English word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. magpie

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *agu, further etymology unknown. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oḱ-éh₂, from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”); however, the variant *ag-ad- ~ *ag-at- perhaps points to a substrate borrowing, cf. *magaþ (“girl”).

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