Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. · A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.
To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.
The origin of the noun is uncertain; it is possibly derived from Middle English *pange, perhaps an altered form of prange, prōnge (“affliction, agony, pain; pointed instrument”) as in prongys of deth (“pangs of death, death throes”), from Anglo-Latin pronga, of unknown origin. Perhaps connected with Middle Dutch prange, pranghe (“instrument for pinching”) (modern Dutch prang (“horse restraint; fetter, neck iron”)), Middle Low German prange (“pole, stake; (possibly) kind of pillory or stocks”), Old English pyngan (“to prick”). The word may thus be related to prong. The verb is derived from the noun.
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