angr

• angre

angr

1. imperative of angre

angr

1. imperative of angra

From Proto-Germanic *angazaz. Compare to ǫngr.

angr m

1. sorrow, resentment, distress
2. repentance
3. tribulation, affliction
4. injury, harm (physical)

• Icelandic: angur
• Faroese: angur
• Norwegian: anger
• Danish: anger
• Old Swedish: anger
  • Swedish: ånger
• → Middle English: anger
  • English: anger
  • Scots: anger

• “angr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *angraz.

angr m

2. bay, inlet, firth

• Angrmannaland (“Ångermanland in Sweden”)
• Harðangr (“Hardanger in Norway”)
• Stafangr (“Stavanger in Norway”)

• Norwegian Nynorsk: anger (dialectal, in compounds)
• Swedish: ånger (dialectal, in compounds)