Minigaila

Lithuanian Etymology (Balto-Slavic origin:) Uncertain etymology. First attested in the 14th century.Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles, Volume 4 — Saint Petersburg, 1848. P. 72. Compare be Мінігайла and pl Minigiełło. (Germanic origin:) Some Germanist scholars who study Baltic onomastics claimed that the name Bargaila and its Slavic cognates are of Gothic origin and that they are composed of got minan to remember gails lively, wayward, arrogant 1 (cognated to de Minigel). This perspective disputes analyses that construct the name solely from Balto-Slavic onomastics. Proper noun m Minigáila Minigáilė 1 lt archaic lt male Declension Minigáil Minigáil Minigáilai s Proper noun m Minigáila Minigáilienė Minigáiláitė 1 lt Declension Minigáil Minigáil Minigáilai References