Re: [tied] Greek "angos"

Thank you, Piotr, for your prompt reply to my inquiry about "angos",
and tgpedersen for your extensive (overextensive?) list of worldwide
reflexes of H-N-G.
I offer as a double warning against being tricked by superficial
verbal similarities that the angioscopy for my etymologically
unrelated angina found stenosis (> another Greek word of no
convincing etymology?) of a coronary artery, now corrected by a stent
(> Charles Stent 19th Century English dentist).
Anyway, I hope it keeps me around to enjoy Cybalist and other
pleasures a few more years.

> The "constrictor" root *h2ang^H- is treated at:
>
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE18.html
>
> There are also cognates in Slavic (*o~zU-(k-) 'narrow') and

Indo-Aryan (aMhu- 'narrow', both from *h2ang^H-u-), and I'm sure in
other branches as well.

>
> I don't know of a convincing etymology of <angos> or of any

extra-Greek cognates.

>
> Piotr
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: danjmi
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:55 PM
> Subject: [tied] Greek "angos"
>
>
> I'm about to have angioplasty for my angina -- two words almost
> next to each other in the English dictionary, but which I was
> surprised to find are quite unrelated. I'm comfortable with the
> word "angina" (the actuality isn't too comfortable), ultimately

from

> I.-E. "angh" painful constriction, related to English "anger",
> "anxiety", and German "Angst". "Angio-" blood vessel, is from the
> Greek "angeion" used post-classically for quite a variety of
> hollow body parts, a diminutive of "angos" vessel, used by
> Homer for kitchenware. But the references I have handy go no
> further. Is there an I.-E. etymology? Or was the word from a
> pre-Hellenic culture? Any information appreciated.
> Dan Mi