paling

Senso (Inglese)

eel

Concetti

anguilla

capitone

finlandese

🇫🇮

sinonimi

aal

palingachtigen

Fins

🇫🇮

Finse taal

Traduzioni

eel

Aal

anguille

enguia

anguila

χέλι

anguila

anguilla

yılan balığı

anguila

مارماسی

anguia

Aalartige

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈpaː.lɪŋ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da olandese medio: palinc

Ereditato da 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.