Danish

Alternative forms

• Åge

Proper noun

Aage

1. A male given name.

Related terms

• (surname) Aagesen

References

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 61 481 males with the given name Aage have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1910s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Aage

1. A male given name, a less common spelling of Åge.

Middle French

Noun

aage m (plural aages)

1. Alternative form of eage

Old French

Alternative forms

• aige, age, eage, edage

Etymology

From earlier edage, from Vulgar Latin *aetaticum, from Latin aevitās ‎(“age”), from aevus ‎(“time, lifetime”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- ‎(“lifetime”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍃 ‎(aiws, “time, eternity”), Old High German ēwī ‎(“eternity”), Old English ǣ ‎(“life”), ā ‎(“always”). More at no.

Noun

aage m ‎(oblique plural aages, nominative singular aages, nominative plural aage)

1. age
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Onques nus hon de son aage
     Ne fu de greignor vasselage.

     Never us, men of their age
     We did not deal with the biggest vassalage.

Descendants

• English: age (borrowed)
• French: âge