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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Vulgar Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda (“cicada”),[1] 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)
- cicada
References
- ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “ǵinkałε, ḱingałε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 140
Further reading
- “gjinkallë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006