ganÉ›. (É¡É‘Ì€.nÉ™) adj.
- Deadly, poisonous, dangerous, noxious, baneful.
[Âdlantki *gani. Kirumb *ganos, Proto-Indo-European *gÊ·hn- ‘to slay’.]
I don’t know how late this formation was, but Pokorny doesn’t show any cognates  that would have been built from the pattern *gÊ·hn-no- as this would be.  Most of the derivatives of this root refer to the act of slaying or the thing being slain, but in Kirumb *-no- became a productive suffix to create nouns and adjectives referring to the doer of an action.  GanÉ› is thus literally ‘that which kills’, though it may also be used for things that are only gravely damaging as well.
This word was the last I needed to translate the first phrase of the Iliad:
- Æ©uyirÉ”
- sing.IMPERAT
- Ê’evÉ›,
- goddess
- emne
- anger
- ganÉ›
- deadly
- adÉ™
- ACC
- Axille’f
- Achilles.GEN
- Pele’f
- Peleus.GEN
sing, O Goddess, the deadly wrath of Achilles son of Peleus
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