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Albanian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Albanian *tsala, cognate to Sanskrit शाल (śalá, stick, cane), Old Irish cail (spear), Old Norse hali (point of a pole).[1]

Noun

thel m (plural thela, definite thela, definite plural thelat)

  1. big nail, clapper

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “thel”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 473