omen

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
 * 2) A thing of prophetic significance.
 * 1) A thing of prophetic significance.
 * 1) A thing of prophetic significance.
 * 1) A thing of prophetic significance.
 * 1) A thing of prophetic significance.

Synonyms

 * augury, auspice, forecast, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, herald, hint, indication, oracle, portent, prediction, presage, prophecy, sign, signal, token, warning; danger sign, straw in the wind, (hand)writing on the wall; see also Thesaurus:omen

Collocations

 * Adjectives often applied to "omen": good, ill, bad, auspicious, evil, favorable, happy, lucky.

Translations

 * Arabic:, نَذِيْر, طالِع
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, , ,
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏓᎴᎯ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: antaŭsigno, omeno
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: οἰωνός, κληδών
 * Ingrian: sanoma
 * Irish:, , droch-tuar , teir
 * Italian:, , , , ,
 * Lao:
 * Latin: omen, praenuntia
 * Maori: takiari, tūpō, kōara , inati
 * Marathi: शकुन
 * Middle Persian: pal, pal, pal
 * Norman: avèrti
 * Norwegian: omen
 * Old English: wyrd
 * Ottoman Turkish: اوغور
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Bediedunk
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: pangitain


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: antaŭsigno
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, , prenunzio, , ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ,

Verb

 * 1)  To be an omen of.
 * 2)  To divine or predict from omens.

Synonyms

 * prognosticate, betoken, forecast, foretell, portend, foreshadow, bode, augur, prefigure, predict, auspicate, presage

Etymology
, perhaps from, but the semantic shift is problematic. If it's not a borrowing, from something akin to.

Noun

 * 1) fame, renown

Particle

 * 1) reportedly, apparently, I think

Etymology
From, of uncertain origin, with many origins proposed:
 * Ancient authors derived it from.
 * Derived from (whence ) or from, whence 🇨🇬.
 * Per Beneviste and Oettinger, connected to 🇨🇬 via a supposed . De Vaan considers this semantically unconvincing.
 * Per De Vaan (who doubts the authenticity of the Old Latin form ), most likely from, from an s-present form of +  (whence ).
 * An alternative theory by Meier-Brügger derives the word from, from an o-grade of (whence ). This is semantically attractive, but requires the existence of the otherwise unattested-in-Latin o-grade of , as well as an atypical formation of a smen-derivative from the Proto-Indo-European perfect.

Noun

 * 1) omen, sign, harbinger, portent, token

Descendants

 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
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Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) an

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) an

Etymology
., originally as a neuter noun.

Noun

 * , foreboding

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) an