Etymology

doegling

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Today it means: A northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained. Full definition →

Danish døgling ← Faroese døglingur
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  1. Faroese · derived fromdøglingur
  2. Danish · borrowed fromdøgling
  3. English todaydoegling

From a typographical variant of Danish døgling, from Faroese døglingur, which now refers to the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.