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ang-
ang-
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ang"
Old English
Prefix
ang-
- narrow, tight
- angbrēost "tightness in the chest, shortnessof breath, asthma"
- vexed
- angmōd "sad, sorrowful, anxious"
- angnæġl "corn on the foot, hangnail"
- angset "pimple, cyst, breakout, boil"
Descendants
References
- hangnail and anxious, bradshaw of the future, 3 January, 2008
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *ang- (“compressed, hard, painful”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵh- (“tight, painfully constricted, painful”).
Prefix
ang-
- compressed, narrow, tight
- angseto "pimple, blister"