English

agasp

From a- + gasp.

Formed from a- + gasp

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Old Norse geispa ‘to yawn’

Middle English gaspen ‘to gape, exhale’

English gasp

Today it means

adj In a state of gasping.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.