own

Εννοια

Adj

1. Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
2. Not shared.
3. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
4. (obsolete) Not foreign.

Verb

1. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
2. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
3. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
4. To virtually or figuratively enslave.
5. (slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
6. (slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
7. (slang) To be very good.
8. To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
9. To admit; concede; acknowledge.
10. To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
11. To take responsibility for.
12. To recognise; acknowledge.
13. To claim as one's own.
14. To confess.

Noun

A crushing insult.

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/əʊn/

Ετυμολογία

From Middle English owen, aȝen, from Old English āgen (“own, proper, peculiar”), originally the past participle of āgan; from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to have, possess”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots ain (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), Dutch, German and Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish egen (“own”), Icelandic eigin (“own”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.
Also cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, “able to do, capable of; owner, master”).

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