marmot
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English
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Etymology
[edit]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”); akin to Engadin Romansch murmont, Old High German muremunto (dialectal German Murmentel, standard Murmeltier).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑː.mət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹ.mət/
- Rhymes: -ɑɹmət
- Hyphenation: mar‧mot
Noun
[edit]marmot (plural marmots)
- Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]rodent of the genera Marmota
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]marmot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Marmota on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Marmota on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French marmotte. Possibly related to Middle Dutch marmotte (“goblin, kobold”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]marmot f (plural marmotten)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Afrikaans: marmot
- → Caribbean Javanese: marmut
- → Indonesian: marmot
- → Japanese: モルモット (morumotto, “guinea pig”)
- → Korean: 모르모트 (moreumoteu)
- → Papiamentu: marmòt
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from marmotter.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]marmot m (plural marmots, feminine marmotte)
- (archaic) an architectural grotesque, especially a door knocker
- (colloquial) kid, brat
- 2015 [2004], Stéphane Dompierre, Un petit pas pour l'homme [A small step for man], →ISBN, page 171:
- — C’est bon. Et en lui posant des questions sur elle, tu finis par apprendre qu’elle a un marmot. Tu fais quoi ?
- "That's alright. And by asking her questions about her, you end up learning she has a kid. What are you doing?"
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Italian: marmaglia, marmocchio
Further reading
[edit]- “marmot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]marmot m (plural marmots)
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