English
angerful
Angerful comes from Middle English angerful.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500angerful
- Englishearliest quotation 1860same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500angerful
- Englishearliest quotation 1860same form
Earliest quotation: 1860, Holme Lee, Kathie Brande: “There, Bootle, that will do; we appreciate your sentiments…”
Formed from anger + -ful
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- ‘narrow, tied together’
Proto-Germanic *angazaz ‘grief, sorrow’
Old Norse angr ‘affliction, sorrow’
Middle English anger ‘grief; wrath’
English anger
Every English word from Middle English angerful
Today it means
adj Full of anger, expressing anger.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English angerful / angerful