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Albanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *ts-angulā, prefixed diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”) (compare Latin anguis, Lithuanian angìs, Old High German angar (“kind of maggot”)). Alternatiely, from Proto-Albanian *sengulā, diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *sengʰ- (“ant”) (compare Old Prussian sangis, Irish seangán, Central Kurdish ھەنگ (heng, “bee”)).
Noun
thnegël f (plural thnegla, definite thnegla, definite plural thneglat)
- ant
Synonyms
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “thnegël”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 480
- ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, “The Albanian name for badger”, Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 47, no. 2 (2011): 244.