Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *angô

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *angô Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_angô_1

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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11) Guus Kroonen Brill 2013 Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture James P. Mallory Douglas Q. Adams Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers 1997 From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition) Don Ringe Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben Helmut Rix Martin Kümmel Thomas Zehnder Reiner Lipp Brigitte Schirmer Wiesbaden Reichert 2001 From ‘throat’ to ‘self’? A note on the development of reflexive markers and Armenian anjn Daniel Kölligan Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 74(2) 41–60 2022 *h₂emǵʰ- to constrict, tighten, compress; narrow, tight; distressed, anxious *h₂enǵʰ- to constrict, tighten, compress; narrow, tight; distressed, anxious *h₂enk- curve, bend ἀγκών elbow अङ्क hook uncus hook, barb; bent անձն person, self

noun masculine an-stem a bend or crook; a hook, barb, or projecting point a pointed or barbed weapon or missile, especially a spear, dart, or arrow From an inherited Proto-Indo-European masculine n-stem built to *h₂enk-. Ringe 2017: 123 reconstructs a mobile paradigm *h₂ánkō ~ *h₂n̥kn-́́ , remodeled to oxytone *h₂ankṓ. Kroonen 2013: 28, s.v. *angan- similarly reconstructs *angan- from an oxytone formation *h₂enk-ón-. The closest formal cognate is Ancient Greek ἀγκών; related formations include Sanskrit अङ्क and Latin uncus, reflecting the same semantic complex ‘bend, crook’ → ‘hook, projecting point’ Kroonen 2013: 28, s.v. *angan- Mallory & Adams 1997: 61–62 Ringe 2017: 123 Rix et al. 2001: 268. Alternatively, Kölligan 2022: 41–44 connects the Germanic n-stem with PIE *h₂emǵʰ-/*h₂enǵʰ-, together with Armenian անձն, separating it from *h₂enk-.