Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *angustizScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_angustiz
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Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen SpracheFriedrichKlugeElmarSeeboldWalter de Gruyter1989Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013The American heritage dictionary of Indo-European rootsCalvertWatkinsBostonHoughton Mifflin Harcourt2011Nomina im indogermanischen LexikonDagmar S.WodtkoBrittaIrslingerCarolinSchneiderUniversitätsverlag Winter2008The Prehistory of the Proto-Slavic Abstract Suffix *-ostь and Its Baltic CongenersMarekMajerScando-Slavica 67(2)203–2262021Like Dust on the Silk Road: On the Earliest Iranian and BMAC Loanwords in Tocharian. Leiden Studies in Indo-European 27Chams BenoîtBernardLeiden & BostonBrill2025angorsuffocation, anxietyangustusnarrow, closeअंहस्anxiety𐬄𐬰𐬀𐬵anxiety, narrownessἄγχωto squeeze, strangle*h₂emǵʰ-to constrict, tighten, compress; narrow, tight; distressed, anxious*h₂enǵʰ-to constrict, tighten, compress; narrow, tight; distressed, anxious*h₂emǵʰ-u-narrow
nounfemininei-stemnarrowness, tightness; constrictiondistress, fear, anxietyA Germanic abstract derivative associated with *anguz, with *-(s)ti-, yielding *angustiz. The prehistory of *-st- is uncertain: the noun may continue a *-sti- formation to Proto-Indo-European *h₂emǵʰ-u- or a *-ti- derivative of the related s-stem *h₂emǵʰ-es/os- Kluge & Seebold 1989: s.v. Angst an analysis through *-os-ti- has also been proposed Majer 2021: 208 n. 28Watkins 2011: s.v. angh-. Ultimately from the PIE root *h₂emǵʰ-/*h₂enǵʰ-. The shift from bodily constriction to emotional distress is already Indo-European: compare Sanskrit अंहस्, Avestan 𐬄𐬰𐬀𐬵, Latin angor, angustus, and Ancient Greek ἄγχωBernard 2025: 15, 94Kroonen 2013: s.v. *angwu-Wodtko et al. 2008: 301–303.