gjinkallë

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • gjingallë, gjënkallë, gjëngallë
  • qingallë

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda (“cicada”),[1] with metathesis of voicedness from the more conservative form qingallë. The unetymological -n- may have been inserted by contamination with qengj, qingj (“lamb”).

Noun

gjinkallë f (plural gjinkalla)

  1. cicada

References
  1. Meyer, G. (1891) “ǵinkałε, ḱingałε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 140

Further reading
  • “gjinkallë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
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