ago

Pronunciation: /əˈɡəʊ/

The English word “ago” has 3 meanings listed here.

postposition

Before now, before the present time

adjective

Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.
Nearly gone; dead. (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)

Etymology

From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- + gone, and by surface analysis, a- + go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare, go forth”). Compare also Old Saxon āgangan (“to go or pass by”),…

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