gjinkallë

Albanian

Alternative forms

• gjingallë, gjënkallë, gjëngallë
• qingallë

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda (“cicada”), with metathesis of voicedness from the more conservative form qingallë. The unetymological -n- may have been inserted by contamination with qengj, qingj (“lamb”).

Noun

gjinkallë f (plural gjinkalla)

1. cicada

Further reading

• “gjinkallë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006