angh- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	angh-
DEFINITION:	Tight, painfully constricted, painful. Oldest form anh-, becoming angh- in centum languages. Derivatives include anger, hangnail, and quinsy. 1. agnail, hangnail, from Old English ang-nægl, “painful spike (in the flesh),” corn, excrescence (nægl, spike; see nogh-), from Germanic ang-, compressed, hard, painful. 2. Suffixed form angh-os-. anger, from Old Norse angr, sorrow, grief, from Germanic angaz. 3. Suffixed form angh-os-ti-. angst¹, from Old High German angust, anxiety, from Germanic angusti-. 4. anxious, from Latin angere,* to strangle, torment. 5. Suffixed form angh-os-to-. anguish, from Latin angustus,* narrow. 6. quinsy, from Greek ankhein, to squeeze, embrace. 7. angina, from Greek ankhon, a strangling. (Pokorny anh- 42.)


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