Etymology

Formed on angre.

PGmc Ancestor

*angez-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

angr (n.) ‘sorrow, resentment, distress; repentance; tribulation, injury’; cp. angrligr (adj.). 'anxious, concerned; sorrowful, unpleasant'
(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

Attestation

Widespread from the late fourteenth century.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 733, 832*, 2185

Bibliography

MED angrīlī (adv.), OED angrily (adv.); see further anger.