• ango,
xi, ctum, and anxum, 3,
v. a. (
perf. and
sup. rest only on the assertion in
Prisc. p. 895 P.;
Diom. p. 366 P.;
part. anctus, Paul. ex
Fest. p. 24 Müll.;
acc. to
Prisc.
l. c., the
sup. is sometimes anxum;
cf. Struve, 214) [the root of this word is widely diffused:
ἄγκος, a bend, hollow; whence, valley, ravine; from the notion of
closeness, come
ἄγχω = to press tight, to strangle, throttle; ango;
Germ. hangen, hängen; Engl. hang; angustus, anxius, anxietas; old
Germ. Angust;
Germ. Angst = Engl. anguish; from the notion of
being bent, come ancus anculus, a crouching slave, ancora =
Gr. ἄγκυρα; angulus =
Germ. Angel, Engl. angle; old
Germ. Angul, a hook; Gael. ingle = nook for the fire, fireplace; ancale =
ἀγκάλη, Engl. ankle; ancon, and the pr. names Ancon and Ancona; uncus, curved, crooked; ungula, claw; unguis, claw, nail;
cf. Sanscr. ahus, close; ahas, anguish; ankāmi, to bend; ankas, the lap (sinus), a hook; for the other Greek words belonging to this group, v. L. and S. s. vv.
ἄγκος and
ἄγχω].