Purggli

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Italian porco (“pig, pork”), from Latin porcus (“domesticated hog, pig”), from Proto-Italic *porkos (“young swine, young pig”), from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos. Cognate to German Ferkel (“piglet”).

Noun

Purggli n

(Urseren) piglet

References

Abegg, Emil (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 21.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.