Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary

noun neuter an-stem ointment; salve butter From pre-Germanic *óngʷō, continuing the collective *h₃éngʷō of the Proto-Indo-European neuter n-stem *h₃éngʷn̥ ~ *h₃n̥gʷéns, derived from *h₃engʷ- Fulk 2018: 169 Jasanoff 2002: 35 Kroonen 2011a: 32 Kroonen 2013: s.v. *ankwan- Pronk 2021: 151–52 Ringe 2017: 120. The semantic range ‘ointment’ ~ ‘butter’ is old, reflecting the use of fatty substances both as food and for smearing or anointing Mallory & Adams 1997: 24, 382 Pronk 2021: 151–52. Direct nominal cognates are Latin unguen and Old Irish imb; the same root is reflected in Old Armenian աւծանեմ, Latin unguō, Sanskrit अनक्ति, and, in a different formation *h₃n̥gʷ-tó-s, Old Prussian anctan Kroonen 2011a: 32 Kroonen 2013: s.v. *ankwan- Mallory & Adams 1997: 24, 382. LIV² instead reconstructs *h₂engʷ- on the basis chiefly of Greek evidence and treats the Italic o-vocalism as analogical, but the *h₃- reconstruction is also used in the more recent treatment by Pronk Pronk 2021: 151–52 Rix et al. 2001: 267. Declension

Likely originally a neuter an-stem, later reclassified as masculine in West Germanic (see Fulk 2018: 169; Pronk 2021: 151–52).