Etymograph

English

harangue

Harangue comes from Gothic *hriggs ‘ring, circle’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)krengʰ-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hringaz‘ring’reconstructed
  3. Gothicc. 300–600*hriggstransliteratedGothic script *hriggs, a transliteration‘ring, circle’reconstructed
  4. Old Italianmodernaringa
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500arang
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1711harangue

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)krengʰ-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hringaz‘ring’reconstructed
  3. Gothicc. 300–600*hriggstransliteratedGothic script *hriggs, a transliteration‘ring, circle’reconstructed
  4. Old Italianmodernaringa
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500arang
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1711harangue

Earliest quotation: 1711, December?, Jonathan Swift: “He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-

rung

through Proto-Germanic *hringaz ‘ring’

ring, range, rank, rink, rang

Today it means

noun An impassioned, disputatious public speech.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ- / harangue

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