ето и една друга връзка с етимологията на думата ъгъл/онгъл:

Думата се свързва с *h2enk- „кривя“, *h2оnk- „кука“

и от статията за англите /едно от германските племена предшественици на съвременните англичани, дали между другото и името им/

The name of the Angles may have been first recorded in Latinised form, as Anglii, in the Germania of Tacitus. It is thought to derive from the name of the area they originally inhabited, the Anglia Peninsula (Angeln in modern German, Angel in Danish). This name has been hypothesised to originate from the Germanic root for "narrow" (compare German and Dutch eng = "narrow"), meaning "the Narrow [Water]", i.e., the Schlei estuary; the root would be *h₂enǵʰ, "tight". Another theory is that the name meant "hook" (as in angling for fish), in reference to the shape of the peninsula; Indo-European linguist Julius Pokorny derives it from Proto-Indo-European *h2enk-, "bend" (see ankle).[1] ..... In any case, the Angles may have been called such because they were a fishing people or were originally descended from such, so England would mean "land of the fishermen", and English would be "the fishermen's language"

Редактирано от tormentor на 03.03.19 12:23.