anger
Middle English
/ˈanɡər/
noun
Definitions
- Grief, painfulness, or discomfort; a feeling of pain or sadness.
- A trouble, affliction, or vexation; something that inflicts pain or hardship.
- Angriness, ire; the state of being angry, enraged, or wrathful.
- Indignation, spitefulness; the feeling of being wronged or treated unfairly.
- (rare) Irritableness; the state of being in a foul mood.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse angr (sorrow, tedium, firth, affliction, depression) derived from Proto-Germanic *angazaz (sorrow, grief).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*angazaz
Gloss
sorrow, grief
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
戚
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anger English
- anger management English
- angerest English
- angereth English
- angerful English
- angerless English
- angerlike English
- angerly English
- angerness English
- angersome English
- angry English
- *h₂enǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- anger Norwegian Bokmål
- *angazaz Proto-Germanic
- *anguz Proto-Germanic
- ånger Swedish
- anger Norwegian Nynorsk
- angerly Middle English
- angir Middle English
- angre Middle English
- angren Middle English
- angrily Middle English
- angry Middle English
- angrynes Middle English
- angur Middle English
- Stafangr Old Norse
- angr Old Norse
- angra Old Norse
- *ankeda Proto-Finnic