own

Meanings

Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
Not shared
Peculiar, domestic.
Not foreign.

To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
To virtually or figuratively enslave.
To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
To be very good.
To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
To admit; concede; acknowledge.
To take responsibility for.
To answer to.
To recognise; acknowledge.
To claim as one's own.
To confess.

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").
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 owe.
A , owning and own. Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

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