ondatra
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)
- (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.
- 1852, The Swiss Family Robinson, a translation of Johann David Wyss' German Der Schweizerische Robinson, chapter 39:
References
[edit]- ^ Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (1910), edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, part 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, ..."
- ^ 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
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ondatra”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “ondatra”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ondatra m (plural ondatras)
Further reading
[edit]- “ondatra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French ondatra, ultimately from a Wyandot term.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -atɾɐ
- Hyphenation: on‧da‧tra
Noun
[edit]ondatra m (plural ondatras)
Further reading
[edit]- “ondatra”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “ondatra” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “ondatra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
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