Otter
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒt.ə/
- (General American) enPR: ŏtʹər, IPA(key): /ˈɑtɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophone: odder (US)
- Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Proper noun
editOtter
- A river with its source in the Blackdown Hills, Somerset, and which flows through Devon, to Lyme Bay in the English Channel.
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editGerman
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle High German otter, from Old High German ottar, from Proto-West Germanic *otr.
Noun
editOtter m (strong, genitive Otters, plural Otter)
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- Fischotter m
- Seeotter m
Etymology 2
editFrom 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
editOtter f (genitive Otter, plural Ottern)
Usage notes
edit- At least outside of scientific parlance, this word is chiefly restricted to compound words, to avoid confusion with Etymology 1.
Declension
editDerived terms
editSaterland Frisian
editEtymology
editFrom Old Frisian *otter, from Proto-West Germanic *otr. Cognates include West Frisian otter.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editOtter m (plural Ottere)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/ɒtə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɒtə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Rivers in Somerset, England
- en:Rivers in England
- en:Rivers in Devon, England
- en:Places in Somerset, England
- en:Places in England
- en:Places in Devon, England
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- German terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wed-
- German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German doublets
- German feminine nouns
- de:Mustelids
- de:Vipers
- Saterland Frisian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Saterland Frisian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wed-
- Saterland Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Saterland Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Saterland Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian
- Saterland Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian
- Saterland Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Saterland Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Saterland Frisian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Saterland Frisian lemmas
- Saterland Frisian nouns
- Saterland Frisian masculine nouns
- stq:Mustelids