ago的词源

英文词源

ago: ago: [14] Historically, ago is the past participle of a verb. Its earlier, Middle English, form – agone – reveals its origins more clearly. It comes from the Old English verb āgān ‘pass away’, which was formed from gān ‘go’ and the prefix ā- ‘away, out’. At first it was used before expressions of time (‘For it was ago five year that he was last there’, Guy of Warwick 1314), but this was soon superseded by the now current postnominal use.
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ago (adj.): early 14c., shortened form of Old English agan, agone "departed, passed away," past participle of an obsolete verb ago "to go forth," formed from a- "away" (perhaps here used as an intensive prefix) + gan "go" (see go (v.)). Agone remains a dialectal variant.

古英语前缀a-, 来自PIE*uz, 向上，向外，词源同out. go, 走，离开。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：ago 词源，ago 含义。

来源于古英语动词agan(去世)的过去分词形式,agan由前缀a-(离开)和gan(走)组成;在中古英语时期ago的拼写形式是agone。

词根词缀： a- + go离开

同源词：go