different between beaver vs marmot

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bi?v?/
• (General American) enPR: b??v?r, IPA^(key): /?biv?/
• Rhymes: -i?v?(?)
• Homophones: Belvoir, bever, bevor

Etymology 1

From Middle English bever, from Old English beofor (“beaver”), from Proto-Germanic *bebruz (“beaver”) (compare West Frisian bever, Dutch bever, French bièvre, German Biber, dialectal Swedish bjur), from Proto-Indo-European *b?éb?rus (“beaver”) (compare Welsh befer, Latin fiber, Lithuanian b?bras, Russian ???? (bobr), Avestan ????????????????????????? (bauura), ????????????????????????? (bauuri), Sanskrit ????? (bábhru, “mongoose; ichneumon”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (“brown”). Related to brown and bear.

Noun

beaver (plural beavers or beaver)

1. A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
2. A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     a broad beaver slouched over his eyes

   • 1896: For the White Rose of Arno by Owen Rhoscomyl

     The woman's hair and woman's beaver had both been jerked off, exposing the cropped head of a man...

3. (vulgar, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
   • 2010 Dennis McFadden, Hart's Grove: Stories

     […] once she wore none at all, swears to this day that he saw her beaver that fateful Friday night.

4. The fur of the beaver.
5. Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
6. A brown colour, like that of a beaver (also called beaver brown).

7. (slang) A man who wears a beard.
   • 1936 P.G. Wodehouse, Laughing Gas:

     The beards were false ones. I could see the elastic going over their ears. In other words, I had fallen among a band of criminals who were not wilful beavers, but had merely assumed the fungus for purposes of disguise.

Synonyms

• (hat): castor, castoreum (archaic)
• (fur): castorette
• (cloth): castor

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Animals

Etymology 2

See bevor.

Noun

beaver (plural beavers)

1. Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”)
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     Lord Stafford’s father, Duke of Buckingham,

     Is either slain or wounded dangerously;

     I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:

     With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.

   • 1951 Adaptation of the 1885 Ormsby translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote, correcting Ormsby as to the portion of the helmet referred to by Cervantes (see Note 11 to Chapter II) at the suggestion of Juan Hartzenbusch, a 19th Century Director of the National Library of Spain.

     They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the sake of the air, and the host brought him a portion of ill-soaked and worse cooked stockfish, and a piece of bread as black and mouldy as his own armour; but a laughble sight it was to see him eating, for having his helmet on and the beaver up, he could not with his own hands put anything into his mouth unless some one else placed it there, and this service one of the ladies rendered him.

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness, Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:

     As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!

Further reading

• beaver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Castor on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• beaver on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [2]

References

English

Etymology

From Middle French marmote, from Old French marmotaine, marmontaine, murmontain, from Old Franco-Provençal marmotan, from Vulgar Latin *mures montani, from Latin mus monti (“mountain rat”), from Classical Latin mus alpini; akin to Engadin Romansch murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??.m?t/
• Hyphenation: mar?mot

Noun

marmot (plural marmots)

1. Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (m?motto)
• ? Korean: ?? (mameot)
• ? Thai: ??????? (maa-m???t)

Translations

See also

• groundhog
• woodchuck

Further reading

• marmot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French marmotte. Possibly related to Middle Dutch marmotte (“goblin, kobold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?r?m?t/
• Hyphenation: mar?mot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

marmot f (plural marmotten)

1. marmot, rodent of the genus Marmota

Derived terms

• alpenmarmot
• bosmarmot
• marmottenslaap

Descendants

• Afrikaans: marmot
• ? Indonesian: marmot
• ? Japanese: ?????

French

Etymology

Probably from marmotter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?.mo/

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots, feminine marmotte)

1. (archaic) An architectural grotesque, especially a door knocker.
2. (colloquial) kid, brat

Derived terms

• marmaille

Descendants

• ? Italian: marmaglia, marmocchio

Further reading

• “marmot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French marmot.

Noun

marmot m (plural marmots)

1. (Jersey) brat