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German
Etymology
Gürtel (“belt”) + Tier (“animal”). Displaced the earlier term Armadill (from Spanish armadillo), which had itself displaced Tatu (from Old Tupi).[1]
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Gürteltier n (strong, genitive Gürteltieres or Gürteltiers, plural Gürteltiere)
- armadillo
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- ^ 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.
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