Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂eng-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Etymology

Possibly a voicing assimilation of the stop to the nasal in *h₂enk-.^[1]

Root

*h₂eng-

curve, bend

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eng- (31 c, 0 e)

*h₂éng-os ~ *h₂éng-es-os
- Proto-Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: ἄγγος (ángos)
*h₂eng-es-yo-
- Proto-Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: ἀγγεῖον (angeîon), ἀγγήϊον (angḗïon) — Ionic
    - → Greek: αγγείο n (angeío, “vessel, pot, jar”) (learned)
*h₂éng-ul-(o-)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
  - Proto-Slavic: *ǫgъlъ (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *ankulaz (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hanguri-
  - Mazanderani: انگل (angal)
  - Persian: انگل (angul, angal), انگول (angūl)
  - Sanskrit: अङ्गुरि (aṅguri), अङ्गुलि (aṅguli), अङ्गुली (aṅgulī) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *angulos
  - Latin: angulus (see there for further descendants)
*h₂éng-u-
- ⇒ *h₂eng-u-s-tHo-
  - Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hangúštʰas (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted formations

Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hángas
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *Hángas
  - Sanskrit: अङ्ग (aṅga) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Tocharian:^[2]
- Tocharian A: ānkar
- Tocharian B: āṅkär

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “angulus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 42-43
^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “āṅkär”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 42

Proto-Indo-European

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