thnegël

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • thënegël
  • thënegullë, thënegull, thënëjegëll, fënequllë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ts-angulā, prefixed diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”) (compare Latin anguis, Lithuanian angìs, Old High German angar (“kind of maggot”)).[1] Alternatiely, from Proto-Albanian *sengulā, diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *sengʰ- (“ant”) (compare Old Prussian sangis, Irish seangán, Central Kurdish ھەنگ (heng, “bee”)).[2]

Noun

thnegël f (plural thnegla, definite thnegla, definite plural thneglat)

  1. ant

Synonyms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “thnegël”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 480
  2. Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, “The Albanian name for badger”, Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 47, no. 2 (2011): 244.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.