ondatra
See also: Ondatra
English
Etymology
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
ondatra (plural ondatras)
References
- 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."
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Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈondatra]
Declension
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
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Further reading
- “ondatra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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