Eel

Etymology
From ele:, from  æl:, from. Cognate with West Frisian iel:, Dutch aal:, German Aal:, Swedish and Danish ål:.

Noun

 * 1) Any fish of the order Anguilliformes which are elongated and resemble snakes. There are freshwater and marine species.
 * 2) The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.

Derived terms

 * eelpout, eel-pout
 * conger eel
 * eelfare
 * electric eel


 * glass eel
 * moray eel
 * sand eel
 * slippery as an eel

Translations

 * Arabic: ثعبان الماء
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: aingira
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: (zmiorka)
 * Catalan:
 * Cayuga: gǫ́ːdeh
 * Ch'orti': utuʼ čay
 * Cherokee: ᏢᏕᎦ (tlvdega)
 * Chinese: 鳗鱼 (man4yu2), 鰻
 * Creek: acv´ppv
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: úhoř
 * Danish: ål, ålefisk
 * Dutch:, (before it can spawn), palingachtigen
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: angerjas, angerjalised
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გველთევზა (gvelt'evza), გველთევზასნაირნი (gvelt'evzasnairni)
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εγχέλυς (enkhélis)
 * Modern:
 * Greenlandic: nimeriaq
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew: צלופח
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: anguilo
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: eascann
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ウナギ, 鰻 (unagi)
 * Khmer: អន្ទង់
 * Klamath-Modoc: ġawi
 * Korean: 장어 (jang-eo)
 * Kurdish:
 * Khmer: អន្ទង់
 * Klamath-Modoc: ġawi
 * Korean: 장어 (jang-eo)
 * Kurdish:


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: zutis
 * Lithuanian: ungurys, unguriažuvės
 * Luxembourgish: Éilen
 * Macedonian: јагула
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: sallura
 * Mongolian: могой загас
 * Nahuatl: cōāmichin
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * O'odham:
 * Occitan: anguila
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: anghilă, țipar
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: úhorotvaré
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (bplaa lăi)
 * Tonkawa: nɛswʌlˀ ʌnseːnʌntɪč
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: (vugor)
 * Vietnamese:, cá chình
 * Volapük: pil,  hipil,  jipil,  snekafit
 * Walloon: anweye
 * Welsh: llysywen
 * Ukrainian: (vugor)
 * Vietnamese:, cá chình
 * Volapük: pil,  hipil,  jipil,  snekafit
 * Walloon: anweye
 * Welsh: llysywen

Verb

 * 1) To fish for eels
 * 2) To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel

Anagrams

 * ELE
 * lee, Lee, l'ee

Verb

 * 1) know

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