paling

Significado (Inglés)

eel

Conceptos

anguila

finés

🇫🇮

finlandés

🇫🇮

Sinónimos

aal

palingachtigen

Fins

🇫🇮

Finse taal

Traducciones

eel

Aal

anguille

enguia

χέλι

anguilla

anguila

anguila

anguilla

yılan balığı

مارماسی

anguia

capitone

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈpaː.lɪŋ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de neerlandés medio: palinc

Heredado de Old Dutch: paelding

In summary

From Middle Dutch palinc, padelinc, paeldinc, from Old Dutch paelding, paleding, palezinc. The original form seems to be *palathing (attested in the placename Palathingadīc) or, as some sources prefer, *pathaling. This has no cognates outside Dutch and probably goes back to a substrate language. As the oldest attestation is (latinised) palengus, one could alternatively see the -th- as excrescent and thus derived the word from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”) after the fish's shape. While this is less likely, the distinction sometimes made between aal (“juvenile eel”) and paling (“large, adult eel”) may indeed have been influenced by association with paal.