ondatra

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See also: Ondatra

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Huron / Wyandot[1] ondatra or ondathra, attested in Gabriel Sagard's 1632 French Dictionnaire de la langue huronne[2] and found in the Huron dialects of the Hochelaga region of Canada.[3]

Noun[edit]

ondatra (plural ondatras)

  1. (chiefly US, Canada) The muskrat.
    • 1852, The Swiss Family Robinson, a translation of Johann David Wyss' German Der Schweizerische Robinson, chapter 39:
      The first was the musk-beaver, not much different from the ondatra, excepting in the formation of his snout.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (1910), edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, part 2
  2. ^ Jean-Paul Colin, Trésors des mots exotiques (1986), page 98: "Du huron ondathra (1632); nom indigène du rat musqué ou rat d'Amérique, assez proche du castor, ..."
  3. ^ Handbook of Indians of Canada (1969 edition), edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, page 361: "Ondatra. A name for the muskrat (Fiber zibethicus), derived from one of the Huron dialects of the Iroquoian language early current in the Hochelaga region of Canada."

Anagrams[edit]

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ondatra f

  1. muskrat

Declension[edit]

Declension of ondatra (hard feminine reducible)
singular plural
nominative ondatra ondatry
genitive ondatry ondater
dative ondatře ondatrám
accusative ondatru ondatry
vocative ondatro ondatry
locative ondatře ondatrách
instrumental ondatrou ondatrami

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • ondatra in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • ondatra in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

ondatra m (plural ondatras)

  1. ondatra

Further reading[edit]

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