ነገል

Tigre

Etymology

Cognate to Arabic نَجْل‎ (najl, “offspring”), note also أَنْجَل‎ (ʔanjal, “having large or widely open eyes, widely open (of eyes)”) connecting via the baby schema.

Noun

ነገል • (näggäl) m (feminine ነገለት (näggälat), plural አነግል (ʾänäggəl))

  1. young goat, kid

References
  • Lipiński, Edward (2001) Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta; 80) (in English), 2nd edition, Leuven: Peeters, →ISBN, page 256
  • Littmann, Enno; Höfner, Maria (1962), “ነገል”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI), Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 341a
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