Anger
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German anger, from Old High German angar (“grass plot, arable or pasture land”), from Proto-Germanic *angraz. Cognate with Middle Dutch anger, Old Saxon angar, Old Norse angr (“meadow, pasture ground”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Anger m (strong, genitive Angers, plural Anger)
Declension edit
Declension of Anger [masculine, strong]
Synonyms edit
- Brink (northern, chiefly in placenames)
Proper noun edit
Anger n (proper noun, genitive Angers or (optionally with an article) Anger)
- A municipality of Styria, Austria
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Anger”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891