aglo
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from French aigle, from Latin aquila. Compare Portuguese águia, Spanish águila, Occitan agla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈaɡlo]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -aɡlo
- Hyphenation: a‧glo
Noun
aglo (accusative singular aglon, plural agloj, accusative plural aglojn)
- eagle (large carnivorous bird in the family Accipitridae)
Gothic
Ido
Old Prussian
Etymology
Uncertain. Maziulis points at West-Baltic feminine adjective *agla-, which he splits up into Proto-Baltic root *ag- “compel, force” (instead of expected *aś-; compare) and stem *-la-.[1] Smoczyński supports this theory, bringing up Lithuanian agnùs “vigorous” as a possible cognate.[2] Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *agʰl(u)- “rainy weather”, from earlier *h₂eǵ-Hel- of the same meaning (hence Ancient Greek ἀχλύς (akhlús, “darkness, fog”).[3]
Related terms
References
- Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988) “aglo”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian] (in Lithuanian), volume I, Vilnius: Mokslas, page 50
- Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “agnùs”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, , →ISBN, page 6
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “aghl(u)- (*heghel-)”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 4
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