vogël

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See also: vogel, vögel, Vogel, and Vögel

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *wāgla, from Proto-Indo-European *Hou-go-, compare Latin vagus (“roaming, wandering”) and Norwegian våk (“child”). Related to vogërr.[1] According to Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak, it is the source of Doric Greek βάδιος (bádios, “child”).[2] According to Matasović, the etymology vogël is controversial and has no accepted source or substrate.[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

i vogël (feminine e vogël, masculine plural të vegjël, feminine plural të vogla)

  1. small, little
    Antonym: madh

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vogël”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 513
  2. ^ https://www.academia.edu/31212816/The_earliest_Alhanian_loanwords_in_Greek?auto=download
  3. ^ Matasović, R. (2019). A grammatical sketch of Albanian for students of Indo-European. Zadar.
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