mjegull

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apocope of dialectal mjegullë, from Proto-Albanian *meg(u)lā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰ-leh₂ (mist) (compare Lithuanian miglà, Polish mgła, Greek ομίχλη (omíchli)).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmjɛɡuɫ/

Noun

mjegull f (plural mjegulla, definite mjegulla, definite plural mjegullat)

  1. fog
  2. haze, mist

Declension

References

  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mjegull”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 269
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