vogël

See also: vogel, vögel, Vogel, and Vögel

Albanian

Etymology

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 the dorian Doric Greek βάδιος (bádios)[2] according to Matasovic, the etymology vogël is controversial and has no accepted source or substrate [3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔɡəl/

Adjective

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

  1. small, little
    Antonym: madh

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) 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. Matasevic, R. (2019). A grammatical sketch of Albanian for students of Indo-European. Zadar.
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