angʷ(h)i- (*egʷhi-, ogʷhi- and eĝhi-)

    angʷ(h)i- (*egʷhi-, ogʷhi- and eĝhi-)

    English meaning: ‘snake, worm, *fish (*hedgehog = snake eater)”

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlange, Wurm”

    Note: egʷhi-, ogʷhi- and eĝhi- ds.; at least two etymological different, but early the crossed kinship whose relations still are often unclear.

    Note: Root angʷ(h)i- : ‘snake, worm, *fish” derived from an extended Root anĝh- (*henĝh-): “narrow, *press”

    Material: Lat. anguis = Lith. angìs (f.), O.Pruss. angis “ serpent, snake “ (Ltv. ùodze f. “ snake “), O.C.S. *ǫžь, Russ. už, Pol. wąž “ snake “, Arm. auj (gen. -i) “ snake “ (Meillet Esquisse 154, Dumézil BAL.-SLAV. 39, 100); M.Ir. esc-ung “ eel “ (*”water snake “, esc “ water “ + *angʷhō), Welsh llys-yw-en, pl. -yw-od ds. (Fick II4 15; to Brit. zero grade from ŋg before u̯ see Pedersen KG. I 107). In addition with zero grade and voiced-nonaspirated (the latter could be in itself also in the Lat. and Balt-Slav.) O.H.G. unc “ snake, adder “, Gk. (illyr). ἄβεις ἔχεις Hes. (*n̥gʷi-).

    Note: Common Gk. gʷ > b, kʷ > p phonetic mutatIon. To these forms with voiced-nonaspirated at first is ἴμβηρις ἔγχελυς, Mεθuμναῖoι Hes. (*engʷ-ēri-: to ι compare Solmsen Beitr. 1215), where because of r- suffixes are to be connected balto-Slav. *anguria- in Slav. *ǫgorь m. Russ. ug(o)rь, Pol. węgorz, Cz. úhoř, Serb. ȕgor, Sloven. ogǫ́r “ eel “, Lith. ungurỹs ds. (assim. from *angurỹs, compare finn. ankerias), O.Pruss. angurgis “ eel “ (Church Slavic ągulja, jęgulja “ eel” probably from Lat.). Hirt IF. 22, 67 connects these Gk. and Balt-Slav. eel names to an independent equation (nevertheless, compare the r-suffix of O.H.G. angar etc, see under). Another IE equation for “ eel “ is perhaps Gk. ἔγχελῦς f., Lat. anguilla (see esp. W. Meyer KZ. 28, 163, Johansson KZ. 30, 425, J. Schmidt KZ. 32, 369, Osthoff IF. 4, 270, 292, Hirt IF. 22, 67, IE 619 f.), although the details are still unclear (in the Gk. *ἀγχέλυος assimilated etc. to ἐγχέλυος, or ε and the pure gutural through the influence from ἔχις; in Lat.-illa instead of-ella after the fluctuation in real diminutive under determining influence i of anguis?). Illyr. TN Encheleae “ snake men? “: Hungarian angolna “eel” [from native Illyr. TN Paeones]. While Alb. ngjala (*Encheleae) “ eel “ similar to Alb. gjëndem (*ghend-) “ be found “, gjënj, gjenj, Gheg gjëj “find” (G. Meyer BB. 8, 187, Alb. Wb. 140, Alb. stem III 10; gjet “ find, regain “, s. Schmidt KZ. 57, 20ff.); from Root ghend- and ghed- : “to grab, grip”. Hence Gk. (illyr). ἄβεις ἔχεις Hes. (*n̥gʷi-) : Alb. ngjala “ eel “ the same as Gk. χανδάνω (*ghend-) “ take in, hold, contain, take; to be capable, able; catch”, Aor. ἔχαδον (*ghn̥d-), Fut. χείσομαι (*ghend-s-), perf. κέχονδα : Alb. gjëndem (*ghend-) “ be found “, gjënj, gjenj, Gheg gjëj “find” [common Alb. gh- > gl- > gj- : lith. gh- > dz- phonetic mutation]. Otherwise in Alb. ch- > s- > gj- since the shift -s- > -gj- is a common Alb. phonetic mutatIon. In the meaning “ worm, maggot “ and with r-suffix (compare above ἴμβηρις etc): O.H.G. angar “ grain maggot” “ engirinc “ larva “, Ger. Engerling, Lith. ankštiraĩ̃ “ maggots, cock chafer grubs, grubs “ (and similar forms, see Trautmann O.Pruss. 301), Ltv. anksteri “ maggots, cock chafer grubs “, O.Pruss. anxdris (i.e. anxtris), however, “adder” (about the - st- these Balt forms compare Mũhlenbach-Endzelin Ltv.-D. Wb. I 71), Russ. ug(o)rь “ blister, raised bubble on the skin that is filled with pus, fin “ (also “ eel”, see above), Pol. wągry “ blister, raised bubble on the skin “ (Bezzenberger GGA. 1874, 1236, BB. 2, 154; not better about angar, úgorь ders. GGA. 1898, 554 f.). Nasalized forms: Gk. ἔχις m. (f.) ‘snake”, ἔχιδνα ds. (for *ἐχίδνια, Specht Decl. 377), O.H.G. egala “ leech, bloodsucking worm “, Dan. Nor. igle “ a parasite sheet worm in the viscera of the animals and in the skin and the branchia of the fish “. Moreover Gk. ἐχῖνος, O.H.G. O.E. igil (IE *eĝhinos), Ger. Igel, lit. “ snake eater “, W. Schulze Gnomon 11, 407, Lith. ežỹ s, Church Slavic ježь “ hedgehog (snake eater) “. Arm. iž “ snake, viper “ can be put as *ēgʷhis to ὄφις (Meillet Esquisse 75); Gk. ὄφις “ snake “ (*ogʷhis); Welsh euod (*ogʷh-) “ sheep worms “: O.Ind. áhi-, Av. aži- “ snake “. It is uncertain apposition from O.S. egithassa, M.L.G. egidesse, O.E. (corrupted) üÞexe, O.H.G. egidehsa, Ger. Eidechse mit ewi-, egi-, IE *ogʷhi- = ὄφις (Zupitza Gutt. 99 after Kluge; Falk-Torp under øgle) + Gmc. *Þahsiō, O.H.G. *dehsa “ spindle, newel “. Whether in this variety so order is to be brought that *aŋgʷhi- and *eghi-, *oghi- (ĝh) an intersection form would have caused *egʷhi-, *ogʷhi- , remains undecided. Taboo images have also probably helped in it.

    References: WP. I 63 ff.. WH. I 48, Specht KZ. 64, 13; 66, 56 f., Havers Sprachtabu 44 f.