atgar

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*atgaizaz
2. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*atgaiʀ
3. Old English · learned borrowing fromætgār“a short spear, dart, javelin, a kind of dart or other weapon to cast at the enemy”
4. English todayatgar

Learned borrowing from Old English ætgār (“a short spear, dart, javelin, a kind of dart or other weapon to cast at the enemy”), from Proto-West Germanic *atgaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *atgaizaz; equivalent to at- + gar (“spear”). Cognate with Old Frisian etgēr, Old High German azgēr, azigēr, Icelandic atgeir (“spear”).