*haglą

Unknown. Traditionally compared to Ancient Greek κόχλαξ (kókhlax) (kókhlax), κάχληξ (kákhlēx, ‘pebble(s), small stone(s), gravel (in a riverbed)’) which would point to Proto-Indo-European *kagʰl- (‘pebble’). Beekes instead asserts that the Greek is of substrate origin, on the basis of its irregular variation and the suffix -ακ- (-ak-). Alternatively, *haglaz may be:

Attested as haal in the Codex Vindobonensis, despite all of the other names preserving -z, so in Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌲𐌻 was the name of 𐌷 (compare daaz for dags)