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walrus
English
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w??l.??s/, /?w?l.??s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?w?l.??s/, /?w?l.??s/
Noun
walrus (plural walruses or walrus or walrusses or (both nonstandard, proscribed, uncommon) walri or walrii)
- A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
- 1887 — James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251.
- Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.
- 1887 — James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251.
Quotations
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:walrus.
Synonyms
- morse (obsolete)
- sea horse (rare)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- seal
- sea lion, sealion
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch walrus, probably from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross, from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (“horse-whale”).
Noun
walrus (plural walrusse)
- walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)
Cebuano
Etymology
From English walrus, from Danish hvalros, an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (literally “horse-whale”). The term may have entered English via Dutch walrus.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: wal?rus
Noun
walrus
- a walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)
Dutch
Etymology
The origin of this word is not wholly certain, with several theories proposed. Probably borrowed from Danish hvalros or Swedish valross, from an inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr (“horse-whale”). Equivalent to wal (“whale; large sea-animal”) +? ros (“horse”). The Old Norse word may, however, been a folk-etymological modification of Old Norse rossmal, related to Proto-Germanic *rusta-, from the rust colour of the animal. Preference for borrowing the inverted form could have been due to the influence of the already existing Dutch compound walvis (“whale”, literally “whale-fish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???lr?s/
- Hyphenation: wal?rus
Noun
walrus m (plural walrussen, diminutive walrusje n)
- walrus, any member of the family Odobenidae of which Odobenus rosmarus is the sole extant member
Derived terms
- walrussnor
- walrustand
Descendants
- Afrikaans: walrus
References
walrus From the web:
- what walrus eat
- what walruses look like
- walrus meaning
- what walrus hunt
- what walrus weigh
- what walrus is called in hindi
- what walrus have
carpenter
English
Etymology
From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpent?rius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpent?rius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). More at car.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??.p?n.t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k??p?nt?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)p?nt?(?)
- Hyphenation: car?pen?ter
Noun
carpenter (plural carpenters)
- A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
- (nautical) A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
- A two-wheeled carriage.
- (zoology) A carpenter bee.
- 1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa (page 146)
- The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.
- 1968, Elliot C. G. Pinhey, Introduction to insect study in Africa (page 146)
- (Canada, Britain, regional) A woodlouse.
Synonyms
- (person skilled at carpentry): joiner, chippy
Related terms
- carpentry (noun)
- The Carpenter (jocular: Jesus Christ)
- carpent, carpenting (nonstandard)
Derived terms
- carpent
- carpentering
- carpenter ant
- carpenter bee
- carpenter's pencil
- carpenter's square
Translations
Verb
carpenter (third-person singular simple present carpenters, present participle carpentering, simple past and past participle carpentered)
- To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
- Synonym: (rare) carpent
Further reading
- carpenter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- carpenter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- carpenter at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English
Noun
carpenter (plural carpenters)
- carpenter
Descendants
- English: carpenter
Old French
Noun
carpenter m (oblique plural carpenters, nominative singular carpenters, nominative plural carpenter)
- Alternative form of charpantier
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- what carpenter ants eat
- what carpenters song was in tommy boy
- what carpenter use
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- what carpenter means
- what exactly do carpenters do
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