jegła

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Lower Sorbian

jegły (1)
jegły (2)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jьgъla (thus a doublet of gła); cognate with Upper Sorbian jehła, Polish igła, Czech jehla, Russian игла́ (iglá), Serbo-Croatian ìgla.

Pronunciation

Noun

jegła f inan (diminutive jeglicka)

  1. needle (leaf of conifer) (less common in this sense than the diminutive)
  2. knitting needle

Declension

Further reading

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “jegła”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “jegła”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag