wolverine (Gulo gulo) · fox moth (Macrothylacia rubi) · glutton
çekim: çoğul veelvraten
köken: 1710; compound of veel (“much”) + vraat (“gobbling, eating gluttonously”), calque of German Vielfraß or German Low German Veelfraat. The term originally meant simply ‘glutton’ in German, but was applied to the hyena in pre-modern times. In the 15th century, Norwegian fjellfross (“wolverine”, literally “mountain cat”) was borrowed into Middle Low German by Hanseatic fur traders as villevrās and…
köken: From Old Swedish iærver, from Old Norse jarfr, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᚨᚠᚨᛉ (erafaʀ), of debated origin. Cognate with Faroese jarvur, Norwegian Nynorsk jerv & Norwegian Bokmål jerv, and possibly related to Old Norse jarpr (“brown”), Old English eorp (“brown; dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *erpaz (“light brown”).
wolverine, glutton (Gulo gulo) · synonym of ahmatti (“glutton”)
çekim: çoğul ahmat · tamlayan ahman
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ahma (“glutton”) (compare dialectal Estonian ahm (“glutton”), Ingrian ahmo (“greedy”), Karelian ahmo (“wolverine, glutton”), Ludian ahmo (“wolverine”)), probably ultimately borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Haćman- (compare Sanskrit अश्मन् (aśman, “eater”)). Related also to Proto-Samic *vuosvēs (compare Northern Sami vuosmmis). The meaning “wolverine” is possibly a calque from…
greedy, avaricious, grasping (having greed; consumed by selfish desires)
çekim: karşılaştırma kapzsibb · üstünlük legkapzsibb
köken: First attested in 1506. From kap (“to seize, grasp”) + -si (adjective-forming suffix). Its original meaning was zsákmány (“booty, pillage, plunder”). The consonant "s" in the suffix became voiced over time.