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German
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish armadillo. Displaced earlier Tatu, and was itself later displaced (in the 1880s) by Gürteltier, which see.[1]
Noun
Armadill m (strong or mixed, genitive Armadills, plural Armadille or Armadillen)
- (archaic) armadillo
- Synonyms: Gürteltier; (obsolete) Tatu
Declension
References
- ^ Philip Motley Palmer, Neuweltwörter im Deutschen (1939), page 25: Armadill Das Gürteltier; vom gleichbed. span. armadillo entlehnt. Das einheimische Wort Tatu (Tupi tatu — dasypus, Martius) ist für das 16. und 17. Jh. häufig belegt (schon bei Staden 1557 S. 145), wurde aber durch Armadill und später durch Gürteltier zurückgedrängt.