Etymograph

English

angon

Angon comes from Byzantine Greek ἄγγων ‘prong, hook’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- ‘curve, bend’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂enk-‘curve, bend’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂énk-ōreconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*angô‘hook’reconstructed
  4. Gothicc. 300–600*aggatransliteratedGothic script *agga, a transliteration‘prong, hook’reconstructed
  5. Byzantine Greekc. 600–1453ἄγγωνángōn‘prong, hook’
  6. Englishtodayangon

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂enk-‘curve, bend’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂énk-ōreconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*angô‘hook’reconstructed
  4. Gothicc. 300–600*aggatransliteratedGothic script *agga, a transliteration‘prong, hook’reconstructed
  5. Byzantine Greekc. 600–1453ἄγγωνángōn‘prong, hook’
  6. Englishtodayangon

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- ‘curve, bend’

angle, ing, angora, 15 more

Today it means

noun A type of javelin with a barbed tip, used by the Franks and the various Germanic tribes in the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk- / angon

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