Otter

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English

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Otter

  1. A river with its source in the Blackdown Hills, Somerset, and which flows through Devon, to Lyme Bay in the English Channel.

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle High German otter, from Old High German ottar, from Proto-West Germanic *otr.

Noun

Otter m (strong, genitive Otters, plural Otter)

  1. otter
Declension
Declension of Otter
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Otter die Otter
genitive eines des Otters der Otter
dative einem dem Otter den Ottern
accusative einen den Otter die Otter
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From early New High German nō̆ter, eastern secondary form of Middle High German nāter, from Old High German nātara. Originally the same word as Natter “colubrid”, which see.

The form is based on the common dialectal development -ā- → -ō- with subsequent irregular shortening. Loss of initial n- is a common development in the Germanic languages and is due to metanalysis, i.e. the unetymological segmentation of preceding endings or articles, for example: *eine notter, dialectally *en notter → *en‿otter. The same happened in Dutch adder and English adder. The German form was spread by Luther.

Noun

Otter f (genitive Otter, plural Ottern)

  1. adder
  2. viper
Usage notes
  • At least outside of scientific parlance, this word is chiefly restricted to compound words, to avoid confusion with Etymology 1.
Declension
Declension of Otter
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Otter die Ottern
genitive einer der Otter der Ottern
dative einer der Otter den Ottern
accusative eine die Otter die Ottern
Derived terms

Saterland Frisian

n'Otter.

Etymology

From Old Frisian *otter, from Proto-West Germanic *otr. Cognates include West Frisian otter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔtər/
  • Hyphenation: Ot‧ter

Noun

Otter m (plural Ottere)

  1. otter

Derived terms

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “Otter”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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