Etymograph

English

agaze

Agaze comes from English gaze ‘look at something intently’.

  1. English1500–presentgaze‘look at something intently’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1876agaze

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. English1500–presentgaze‘look at something intently’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1876agaze

Earliest quotation: 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda: “[…] fathers and sons agaze at each other’s haggardness,…”

A compound of a- ‘to’ + gaze ‘look at something intently’

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

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

English a-

Middle English gasen ‘to gaze or stare (at)’

English gaze

Every English word from English gaze

Today it means

adj Gazing.

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

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