different between awe vs glope

English

Etymology

From Middle English aw, awe, agh, aw?e, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”). Displaced native Middle English eye, ey?e, ay?e, e??e, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.

Pronunciation

• In non-rhotic accents:
  • enPR: ô, IPA^(key): /??/
  • Homophones: oar, or, ore, o'er
• In rhotic accents:
  • (US) enPR: ô, IPA^(key): /?/
  • Homophone: aw
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: ä, IPA^(key): /?/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

awe (usually uncountable, plural awes)

1. A feeling of fear and reverence.
2. A feeling of amazement.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV

     For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.

3. (archaic) Power to inspire awe.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

awe (third-person singular simple present awes, present participle awing or aweing, simple past and past participle awed)

1. (transitive) To inspire fear and reverence in.
2. (transitive) To control by inspiring dread.

Synonyms

• (inspire reverence): enthral, enthrall; overwhelm

Derived terms

• awed

Translations

Anagrams

• AEW, EAW, WAE, WEA, eaw, wae

Mapudungun

Adverb

awe (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. quickly, promptly.
2. soon

Synonyms

• arol

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?owu.

Noun

awe

1. Alternative form of ewe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ég?os. Doublet of eye.

Alternative forms

• aw, ahe, au, aue, aghe, age, a?e

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /?a???/
• IPA^(key): /?au?(?)/
• Rhymes: -au?(?)

Noun

awe (uncountable)

1. awe, wonder, reverence
2. fear, horror
3. that which elicits or incites horror; something horrifying

Related terms

• agheful
• aghlich (rare)
• awles (rare)
• awen (rare)

Descendants

• English: awe
• Scots: awe, aw

References

• “aue, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.

Etymology 3

From Old English onwe?, awe?.

Adverb

awe

1. Alternative form of away

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• awé (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Portuguese hoje and Spanish hoy and Kabuverdianu ochi.

Pronoun

awe

1. today

Swahili

Verb

awe

1. inflection of -wa:
   1. third-person singular subjunctive affirmative
   2. m-wa class subject inflected singular subjunctive affirmative

Western Arrernte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw?/

Interjection

awe

1. yes

English

Alternative forms

• glop
• glape (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa (“to stare vacantly”), from Proto-Germanic *glupan? (“to shine, gape”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?lub(?)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glápa (“to watch, stare at”), Dutch gluipen (“to sneak”), Low German glupen (“to look askance, leer”), Scots gloup (“chasm, cleft”). See also gloppen.

Verb

glope (third-person singular simple present glopes, present participle gloping, simple past and past participle gloped)

1. (intransitive, dialectal) To gaze in alarm; be terrified; stare.

Related terms

• gloppen

Noun

glope (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Astonishment; awe; fear.

Anagrams

• golpe, pegol, pelog