*angrawarjaz

From *angraz¹ + *warjaz, literally ‘dweller in the meadows/Anger-land’. The formation is directly reflected in Latin Angrivariī and Ancient Greek Ἀνγριουάρροι (Angriouárroi) and belongs to a productive ethnonymic type in *-warjaz. Compare Latin Amsivariī and Chasuariī (Lehmann 1986a: 389–90, s.v. wair; Krahe & Meid 1969: 223). The second constituent is independently reflected in Old English -ware and Old Norse -verjar. It probably developed from an older sense ‘defender, protector’, ultimately belonging with *warjaną (Lehmann 1986a: s.v. *warjan; Orel 2003: s.v. *warjanan).