sanguessuga

Mane (Îngilîzî)

leech (aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea)

Têgeh

arbijî

Hevwate

parasita

Hirudinea

hirudina

Werger

sangsue

leech

sanguisuga

sanguijuela

Blutegel

βδέλλα

sangonera

bloedzuiger

mignatta

Egel

bloodsucker

parasite

medicinal leech

parassita

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ˌsɐ̃.ɡiˈsu.ɡɐ/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Learned borrowing from Latin sanguisūga (literally “bloodsucker”), from sanguis (“blood”) + sūgō (“suck”). Displaced inherited samessuga, still used dialectally in Portugal.