Anger

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See also: anger and ånger

German[edit]

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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]

  • IPA(key): /ˈaŋər/, [ˈʔaŋɐ]
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Noun[edit]

Anger m (strong, genitive Angers, plural Anger)

  1. (often as Dorfanger) village green
  2. (regional) small meadow or plot of grass

Declension[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

  • Brink (northern, chiefly in placenames)

Proper noun[edit]

Anger n (proper noun, genitive Angers or (optionally with an article) Anger)

  1. A municipality of Styria, Austria

References[edit]

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Anger”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891