Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *agluzScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_agluz
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Encyclopedia of Indo-European CultureJames P.MalloryDouglas Q.AdamsFitzroy Dearborn Publishers1997Four Latin etymologies: volgus, laedo, paedor, merxRankoMatasovićLatina & Graeca417–162022The remodelling of u-stem adjectives in West Germanic10.21827/tabu.2023.41274.LourensVisserTABU15250–2652024ᾰ̓́χνῠμαιto be distressed; to grieveἄχοςdistress; pain, ache*h₂egʰ-to be upset, afraid*h₂egʰ-ló-safflicting, painful; unpleasant, disgracefulalguscoldnessअघbad; evil; sinful; dangerousअघलterrible
adju-stemdifficult, hard; troublesome or burdensome, especially in the sense ‘causing toil, pain, or distress’From pre-Germanic *h₂egʰ-l-u-s, a u-stem adjective built on an *-l- extension of Proto-Indo-European root *h₂egʰ-, literally ‘painful, distressing’, hence ‘difficult, burdensome’. It is the u-stem counterpart of *aglaz < *h₂egʰ-ló-s. This u-stem version only survived in Gothic and was remodeled as a ja-/jō-stem in West Germanic Visser 2024: 6–11. Compare Sanskrit अघ, Sanskrit अघल, Ancient Greek ἄχος/ᾰ̓́χνῠμαι, and possibly Latin algusKroonen 2013: 5Mallory & Adams 1997: 43Matasović 2022: 8–9.