dolphin · Delphinus · ellipsis of Delphinschwimmen (“butterfly stroke”)
çekim: çoğul Delphine · tamlayan Delphins
köken: From Middle High German delfīn, telfīn (13th c.), from Latin delphinus. Forms with diphthongization (Delphein) are hardly attestable, meaning that it was not fully integrated before the Modern German period.
Delphine sind die mit Abstand intelligentesten aller Tiere.
1776, Neuer Schauplatz der Natur nach den richtigsten Beobachtungen und Versuchen. Zweyter Band, Leipzig, page 309
Die 21 schon den Alten bekannten nördlichen Sternbilder sind ... der Delphin oder das Meerschwein, delphinus.
köken: Unknown. Possibly from a root *flutulus, or deverbative from flutura. Related to Albanian flutur, and possibly derived from it; alternatively, it may have a substratum root akin to it, or simply be of imitative origin. Compare also Aromanian flitur.