ἔγχελυς
Anguilla anguilla
#nm_0371📍 Ancient Greece
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Transliteration
- enchelys
- IPA
- /éŋ.kʰe.lys/
From PIE *h₂engʷʰ- (water-worm, eel) ↳ Cognate with Latin anguilla (eel), Lithuanian ungurỹs, Old Prussian angurgis, Russian у́горь úgorʹ, Albanian ngjalë ↳ Form influenced by ἔχις échis (snake), as Latin anguilla was influenced by anguis (snake) ↳ No single PIE form is reconstructable; the irregular variation across daughter languages is usually attributed to taboo
Catadromous - lives in freshwater rivers/lakes, migrates to sea to breed in Sargasso Sea.
Lent to: Χέλι