Some Notes to the Word Awe

jwr1947

Answering DanielEssman to his comments in An Integrated Proto Indo European Con...: i understand the correlation between fear and awe...but not pain and awe...agon and awe don't even sound like the same word...and agi!?!...i'm missing the transformation protocol, i guess... The word Awe is a quite interesting object for study. The word may have deviated from an early word aghe ( agony?) to another, newer expression found in the runic dictionary: ewa, ava, euwin, euwinik, which are used for eternity.

Etymology
In the etymology database awe1 is explained as: c.1300, earlier aghe, c.1200, from a Scandinavian source, cf. O.N. agi "fright," from P.Gmc. *agiz- (cf. O.E. ege "fear," O.H.G. agiso "fright, terror," Goth. agis "fear, anguish"), from PIE *agh-es- (cf. Gk. akhos "pain, grief"), from root *agh- "to be depressed, be afraid" (see ail). Current sense of "dread mixed with veneration" is due to biblical use with reference to the Supreme Being. Awe-inspiring is recorded from 1814.

Scandinavian/German
The explanation O.N. agi "fright" is corresponding to the German word for awe: Ehrfurcht (honoring fear), which is easily understood. The idea of pain related to fear and to be afraid may also be understandable.

Greek
The Greek word for Awe is Deos ( [Noun, n, ]), respectively . (source: Glosbeentry), which may be correlating to God (source: Glosbe-entry). This corresponds to the Reference to the Supreme Being.

Dutch
The Greek word for Awe is ontzag (literally unsee, which relates the word to the verb to hide by disabling sight. (source: Etymologiebank.nl)

Runic Words
Searching the Runic dictionary I found corresponding entries in Anglo-Saxon words ava, euwin and the Old High German word ewa. Ewa also corresponds to the Danish dialect word 2 for the egopronoun I. These words refer to eternity.
1 awe N - Online Etymology Dictionary 2 for ternity - A World made of Word(s)

A corresponding runic word may be AIFIK3 which is explained as follows: eternal, Icelandic: , always, a or (ai, adi, ad), to dwell, fi, time, lifetime Swedish, Danish: evig eternal, Gothic: aivs, time, long time, aiveins, eternal Old High German: io, always, ewa, long time, treaty, law, matrimony, Anglo-Saxon: , ava, euwin, euwinik, euwik, ewic, eternal English: ay, Greek: , Lapland: eke, the elder uncle, ekewes, eternal, ik, eternal, iko, at night, ija, night, ekked, evening. Aifik Jufur eternal God! Lapland: Ekewes Jubmel.

Onomatopia
My observation is that "holy" words do contain a concentrated amount of vowels. Words for "eternity" probably used all vowels: 4, not for opening the mouth, but because only the vowels may be extended to eternity, which is another form of onomatopia.

3 found in Udo Waldemar Dieterich: Das Runenwrterbuch The Runic Dictionary (1844) 4 for ternity - A World made of Word(s)