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“zorro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“zorro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“zorro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“zorro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
^ 2012, A History of the Spanish Lexicon: A Linguistic Perspective→ISBN, page 39: "The initial attestations of Sp. zorro/zorra 'fox' are from the mid fifteenth century and appear almost exclusively in the feminine, employed in cancionero poetry, with reference to idle, immoral women (cf. mod. zorra 'prostitute'). DCECH may well be right in stating that zorro/zorra secondarily became a euphemistic designation for the dreaded fox (cf. raposo so used). The late initial documentation of zorro leads to the question whether this word goes back to early Roman Spain or whether it is a later borrowing from Basque, a derivation, as noted above, challenged by Trask (1997: 421). Far from convincing is the unprovable hypothesis in DCECH that zorro goes back to a verb zorrar (whose authenticity I have been unable to verify), allegedly of onomatopoeic origin."
