thnegël
Albanian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editthnegël f (plural thnegla, definite thnegla, definite plural thneglat)
Synonyms
edit- milingonë, morovicë, dheul, buburrecë, mjarush(kë) (Tosk)
References
edit- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “thnegël”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 480
- ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, “The Albanian name for badger”, Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 47, no. 2 (2011): 244.