köken: Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French vipre, directly borrowed from Latin vīpera. Displaced an earlier Old French doublet guivre (cf. also French vouivre) and its Old Northern French equivalent wivre.
snake, serpent (legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes) · (colubrid) snake (snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous) · a small snake
köken: Etymology tree Classical Latin coluber Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Classical Latin -a Classical Latin colubra Vulgar Latin *colobra Old Spanish culuebra Spanish culebra Inherited from Old Spanish culuebra, from Vulgar Latin *colobra, from Classical Latin colubra. Cognate with Portuguese cobra.
aile: aculebrar, culebra bastarda, culebra de agua, culebra de cascabel, culebra de collar, culebra de cristal, culebra de escalera, culebra viperina, culebrear, culebrón
snake; serpent (any reptile of the suborder Serpentes) · cobra (any snake of the family Elapidae) · viper (malignant person)
çekim: çoğul cobras
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Galician cobra and Spanish culebra.
aile: a cobra vai fumar, andar como cobra quando perde a peçonha, banha da cobra, cágado-pescoço-de-cobra, cipó-de-cobra, cipó-mata-cobras, cobra criada, cobra que não anda, não engole sapo, cobra-capelo, cobra-coral
a viper, an adder, especially the common European adder, Vipera berus
çekim: çoğul huggormar · tamlayan huggorms
köken: From Old Swedish hugormber, from Old Norse hǫggormr (“a serpent”). Equivalent to hugga + orm. Cognates include Icelandic höggormur (“a poisonous snake, a serpent”). Compare Old Norse hǫgg (“a stroke, a weapon's blow”) and ormr (“a snake, a serpent; a worm; a dragon”).
köken: PIE word *kʷŕ̥mis From Proto-Finnic *kärmeh, borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kirmis (compare Latvian cirmenis (“maggot”), Lithuanian kirmis (“worm”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷr̥mis.
köken: Possibly borrowed from Albanian nepërkë (“adder, viper”), otherwise cognate to it, from fuller nepërtkë, originally ‘hatchling snake’, maybe from Proto-Slavic *nepъrtъkъ (compare Bulgarian непрътък (neprǎtǎk, “buttercup”)). Compare Aromanian nipãrticã.
a viper, an adder, common European adder, Vipera berus
çekim: çoğul hugorme · tamlayan hugorms
köken: From Old Danish hugorm, from Old Norse hǫggormr (“a serpent”). Equivalent to hugge + orm. Cognates include Icelandic höggormur, Faroese høggormur, Swedish huggorm and Norwegian hoggorm.