engerling

See also: Engerling

Dutch

Engerlingen van de meikever (larvae of the cockchafer).

Etymology

Borrowed from German Engerling, from Middle High German engerlinc, from Old High German engiring (10th c.), diminutive of angar (“large larva”) (compare modern dialectal German Anger, Inger), from Proto-Germanic *angaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ-ir-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ŋərˌlɪŋ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: en‧ger‧ling

Noun

engerling m (plural engerlingen)

1. larva of a scarab beetle (family Scarabaeidae)