different between lemming vs marmot

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l?m.??/
• Rhymes: -?m??

Noun

lemming (plural lemmings)

1. A small Arctic and Subarctic rodent from any of six genera of similar rodents.
2. (figuratively) Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.

Derived terms

• bog lemmings, Synaptomys spp.
• collared lemmings, Dicrostonyx spp.
• steppe lemming, Lagurus lagurus
• true lemmings, Lemmus spp.
• wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor
• yellow steppe lemmings, Eolagurus spp.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek.

Pronunciation

Noun

lemming m (plural lemmingen or lemmings, diminutive lemminkje n)

1. lemming (rodent)

Anagrams

• glimmen

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

French

Etymology

From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.mi?/

Noun

lemming m (plural lemmings)

1. lemming

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

lemming m (plural lemmings)

1. Alternative form of lémingue

Spanish

Etymology

From Danish and Norwegian lemming, from Old Norse lómundr, læmingi, læmingr (“lemming”), perhaps from Sami luomek.

Noun

lemming m (plural lemmings)

1. lemming (rodent)

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