adj.
'caustic' (Modern English angry)
PGmc Ancestor
*angez-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
angr (n.) ‘sorrow, resentment, distress; repentance; tribulation, injury’
(ONP angr (1) (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far angur, Icel angur, Norw anger, Dan anger, Sw ånger
OE Cognate
cp. ange 'anxious, painful, distressing', enge 'narrow, anguished, oppressive'
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
C1
Widespread from the late 14c., incl. Chaucer and Gower.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Cl 1035
GollCl alone interprets the instance at Cl 1035 as a 'scribal error' for <aigre> from OFr (1035n), but this is unlikely (see McGee 384).