Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *AgilazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_agilaz
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017Altnordisches Etymologisches WörterbuchJande VriesBrill1977ἀκίςpointed object, barb*h₂egʰ-to be upset, afraid*h₂eḱ-sharp*h₂éḱ-ih₂ ~ *h₂ḱ-yéh₂-ssharpness, sharp edgeaciēssharp edge, pointacusneedle, pinअश्रिthe sharp side of anything, corner, angle
propnmasculinea-stema male given name; EgilEgil/Egill, the legendary archer of the Wayland/Völundr cycle, brother of Wayland/Völundr and SlagfiðrProbably from *agjō + *-ilaz, with *-ilaz functioning here as a hypocoristic or individualizingsuffix. This analysis is semantically attractive for the legendary archer and connects the name with Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱ-ih₂ ~ *h₂ḱ-yéh₂-s, from *h₂eḱ-. Compare Latin acus, aciēs, Ancient Greek ἀκίς, and Sanskrit अश्रिde Vries 1977: 95Kroonen 2013: 4Ringe 2017: 146. Another possibility is a derivation from *agaz + *-ilaz, from PIE *h₂egʰ-.