tangallë

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tangā (“thick forest”), close to Lithuanian tankù, Old Norse þéttr (“thick”).[1] Possibly a derivative of tangë, with a semantic innovation.

Noun

tangallë f (indefinite plural tangalla, definite singular tangalla, definite plural tangajet)

  1. big forest

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 449
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