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Tigre
Etymology
Cognate to Arabic نَجْل (najl, “offspring”), note also أَنْجَل (ʔanjal, “having large or widely open eyes, widely open (of eyes)”) connecting via the baby schema.
Noun
ነገል • (näggäl) m (feminine ነገለት (näggälat), plural አነግል (ʾänäggəl))
- young goat, kid
References
- Lipiński, Edward (2001) Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 80), 2nd edition, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 256
- Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ነገል”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 341a