thnegël

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • fnégullë — northwestern Gheg, Shkodër
  • thënegël, thënegullë, thënegull, thënëjegëll, thnegëll, thnegullë, fënequllë

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *ts-angulā, prefixed diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”) (compare Latin anguis, Lithuanian angi̇̀s, 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. (originally Gheg) ant
    Synonyms: milingonë, morovicë, dheul, buburrecë, mjarush, mjarushkë, mizë dheu, mizë përdhese — Tosk

Declension

Declension of thnegël
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative thnegël thnegla thnegla thneglat
accusative thneglën
dative thnegle thneglës thneglave thneglave
ablative thneglash

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.
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