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. A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill ,Leiden 2000, p.449
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