gjinkallë

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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gjinkallë f (plural gjinkalla)

  1. cicada

References

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  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “ǵinkałε, ḱingałε”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 140

Further reading

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  • “gjinkallë”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2006
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