ἄγλυ <Iranian; Early Byzantine period>
👉 ἄγλυ – a Scythian gloss with the meaning of κύκνος, i.e. ‘swan’ (Hsch. α 621).
⚠ Hsch. α 621: ἄγλυ· ὁ κύκνος, ὑπὸ Σκυθῶν. “agly: swan. (It is called so) by Scythians’.
🅔 A Scythian word without a convincing etymology. An often suggested connection with Armenian ankł / angł ‘vulture’ is semantically unacceptable. Moreover, cf. an unfounded assumption that the original Scythian form was *μαλγύ (allegedly related to Modern Persian māġ ‘a kind of cormorant; a kind of pigeon’ and Sanskrit madgu- ‘a kind of aquatic bird or cormorant’).
📖 Ref.: cf. Brust 2008: 42f.; Greppin 1978: 39; Lagarde 1866: 277; Mayrhofer 2006: 21; Witczak 1992: 53.