angry
Middle English
/ˈanɡriː/
adj
Definitions
- angry; displaying angriness usually of actions
- Easily annoyed or angered; irous or spiteful.
- Severe, vexatious, ferocious, painful.
Etymology
Affix from Middle English anger (anger, sorrow, wrath, pain, grief, annoyance, affliction, trouble, distress, vexation) derived from Old Norse angr (sorrow, tedium, firth, affliction, depression).
Origin
Old Norse
angr
Gloss
sorrow, tedium, firth, affliction, depression
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Angries English
- anger English
- angrify English
- angrily English
- angriness English
- angry English
- nonangry English
- semi-angry English
- unangry English
- anger Norwegian Bokmål
- *angazaz Proto-Germanic
- *anguz Proto-Germanic
- ånger Swedish
- anger Norwegian Nynorsk
- anger Middle English
- angerly Middle English
- angir Middle English
- angre Middle English
- angren Middle English
- angrily Middle English
- angrynes Middle English
- angur Middle English
- Stafangr Old Norse
- angr Old Norse