Re: Clueless roolz...

> Dansk Etymologisk Ordbog
> igle ["leech"], MDa. egel, igel, No. igle, Sw. igel, MLG egel, OS, OHG
> igil, Germ. Igel "hedgehog" (really "snake eater"), OE igel; from Gmc.
> *eGila-, to which sideforms with i: like ON ígull, OHG i:gil, OE
> i:gel: deriv. in *-ila, *-ula to IE *eg^hi- "leech", to which eg. also
> Gr. échis "snake", Lith. ez^y~s, Gr. echi~nos "hedgehog".

Are these related to hedgehog, too? I mean etymologically.
Romanian hârciog (or hîrciog), Hungarian hörcsög /'hör-c^ög/,
along with cricetus.

George