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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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AWN(D), AWIN(G), Aan(d), pr.p., in pred. use. See Awe, v., to owe, of which awn is the pr.p. (formerly awand). [ɑ:n + ′ɑɪ̢n Sc.; jɑ:n + ɑ:n ne. Sc.; :n wm.Sc., Lth.; ′ɑ:ʌn Arg.; ɒ:n sm.Sc., s.Sc., but Rxb. + ɒ:nd]

1. “Owing,” with object expressing what is owed — e.g. “he's awn me the siller” = he owes me the money.Sc. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xvi.:
Forbye that I'm awing ye my life.Ags.(D) 1922 J. B. Salmond Bawbee Bowden xii.:
The Smith's awin' the Gairner some bawbees.Fif. 1894 J. Menzies Our Town 191:
He's awn [money] to half the town.Arg.1 1928:
I ken fine whut I'm aan ye, but I'm no gaan tae pey ye the day.Lnk. 1926 W. Queen We're a' Coortin 38:
Here's the pottit-heid I wis awin' ye.Ayr. 1803 Sir A. Boswell Poet. Wks. (1871) 12:
He thought to pay what he was awn Wi' Jenny's bawbee.s.Sc. 1873 Murray D.S.C.S. 217:
The Present Participle aand . . . owing, by which with the verb to be, the English verb owe is expressed, thus aa'm aand hym nowcht, I owe him nothing; yee was aand yer rǣnt, you owed your rent.Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B. 44:
A'm awnd'im naething.

2. = Owing in St.Eng. use — i.e. “owed, due,” with subject expressing what is owed.Sc. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xxviii.:
Travelling to Stirling to get in some siller that is awing us.Lnk. 1862 D. Wingate Poems and Songs 48:
He's comin' fast, that creditor Wha maun hae a' that's awn.

3. Awin' to = St.Eng. owing to, prep. phr. “in consequence of.”Sc. [1831] Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) III. 330:
A wheen Whigs are, awin to you, established in sma' shops.

[O.Sc. awand was used in the same way as in 1 and 2 above — i.e. both as an active and passive participle in the pred. The same distinction holds also in O.Sc. for auchting (anglicised form) and auchtand (see D.O.S.T.). The same usage in St.Eng. owing also goes back to Mid.Eng., but the descendant of āgen (pa.p. of āgan) survived alongside till 1803 (N.E.D. Owe, v.2, and Owing, ppl.adj. 2). (See Aucht, v.3, 2.) The -en form of awand that occurs in O.Sc. (D.O.S.T.) is prob. the result of regular phonetic change rather than the descendant of O.E. āgen. The O.Sc. ppl. termination and has survived fully only in s.Sc. d has been dropped in the other dialects and in most of them also the vowel a has been either reduced or absorbed in the root.]

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"Awn pres. p.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 26 Dec 2024 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/awnd>

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