angh-

Tight, painfully constricted, painful. Oldest form *ang̑h-, 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 ankhonē, a strangling.

 

[Pokorny ang̑h- 42.]

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