| 1 | Middle English | angwissh | Distress, anxiety, nervousness; Anguish, terror,... |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | anguise | Alternative form of angoisse |
| 3 | Old French | angoisse | fear, worry, terror |
| 4 | Latin | angustia | narrowness, straitness; defile, straight, gorge;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 6 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |