Engerling

Meaning

1. (masculine, strong) a white, dirt-dwelling grub of beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea, for example the European cockchafers, the summer chafers, the garden chafer or the European rhinoceros beetle.
2. (dated, dialectal, masculine, strong) larva of the family Oestridae, including the botflies, warbleflies and gadflies.

Concepts

white grub

cock chafer grub

grubs

larvae

caterpillars

grubworm

instars

larval stages

maggots

Synonyms

Larve

Made

Raupe

🐛

Larvenstadium

Translations

engerling

ver blanc

chenille

🐛

Man

naissain

larva

tetard

stade larvaire

bruchi

larve

larve di mosche

stadi dello sviluppo larvale

stadi larvali

larve

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

ängerich

Basel-Landschaft

ängerling

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛŋəʁlɪŋ/

Etymology

Cognate with Lithuanian: ungurỹs

In summary

From Middle High German engerlinc, from Old High German engiring (10th c.), diminutive of angar ‘large larva’ (compare modern dialectal Anger, Inger), from Proto-Germanic *angaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ-ir- (compare Lithuanian ungurỹs ‘eel’, ánkštara, inksti̇̀ras ‘pimple; tapeworm’, Albanian thnegël ‘ant’). Compare also Unke, ultimately from a variant of the same Indo-European root.