Anger

See also: anger and ånger

German

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): /ˈaŋər/, [ˈʔaŋɐ]
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Noun

Anger m (strong, genitive Angers, plural Anger)

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

Declension
Declension of Anger [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Anger die Anger
genitive eines des Angers der Anger
dative einem dem Anger den Angern
accusative einen den Anger die Anger

Synonyms
  • Brink (northern, chiefly in placenames)

Proper noun

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

  1. A municipality of Styria, Austria

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