egel
See also: Egel
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eˈɡel/ [ʔɛˈɡɛl]
- Hyphenation: e‧gel
Noun
egél m
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch eghel, from Old Dutch *igil, from Proto-West Germanic *igil, from Proto-Germanic *igilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰis (“hedgehog”).[1] Compare German Igel. Echel (“leech”) is commonly thought to be related to this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeːɣəl/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: egel
- Rhymes: -eːɣəl
Noun
egel m (plural egels, diminutive egeltje n)
Derived terms
- egelgras
- egelskop
- egelstelling
- egelvarken
- egelvis
- egelzwijn
- mierenegel
- zee-egel
- zwijnegel
See also
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*egila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 115