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)
- ant
Synonyms
- milingonë, morovicë, dheulë, buburrecë, mjarush(kë) (Tosk)
References
- A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.480