thnegël

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • thënegullë, thënegull, thënëjegëll, fënequllë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ts-angulā, prefixed diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *h₂ongʷʰ- ‘snake’ (compare Latin anguis, Lithuanian angìs, Old High German angar (“kind of maggot”))[1] or from Proto-Indo-European *snog-, *sneg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”) (compare Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “snake”), English snake.

Noun

thnegël f (indefinite plural thnegla)

  1. ant

Synonyms
  • milingonë, morovicë, dheulë, buburrecë, mjarush(kë) (Tosk)

References
  1. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.480
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