Онгъл

Bulgarian

Etymology

Uncertain. Attested as Ὀγγλος (Onglos) in Byzantine Greek.

Resembles:

• Proto-Slavic *ǫgъlъ (“corner”), parallel to (Standard) Bulgarian ъгъл (ǎgǎl). Akin to Proto-Germanic *anguz (“narrow”) (whence comes the endonym of the Angles), Latin angulus (“angle”), Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “crooked”).
• Oghur *oŋul (“opposite side, exterior”), akin to Turkish ön (“front”), Bashkir уң (uñ, “right”), Yakut уҥa (uña, “opposite bank of a river”), from Proto-Turkic *oŋ- (“to set in order”).

It is not known if the toponym was given by the Bulgars (or their Slavic allies) themselves or continues an earlier name inherited by the local population.

Proper noun

О́нгъл • (Óngǎl) m

1. Onglos (area at the delta of Danube, where Asparukh's Bulgars first settled on the Balkans in 680)

Inflection

Declension of О́нгъл

	singular
indefinite	О́нгъл Óngǎl
definite	—