marten (animal) · mustelid, any member of the family Mustelidae, which includes martens and various other animals (see below) · any of multiple kinds of tanks and IFVs used by the German military
çekim: çoğul Mardern · tamlayan Marders
eş: Mustelidae, Martes, Echter Marder
köken: From Middle High German marder, from Old High German mardar, from Proto-West Germanic *marþr.
pine marten (Martes martes) · marten (any member of the taxonomic genus Martes)
çekim: çoğul näädät · tamlayan näädän
köken: From Proto-Finnic *näätä, possibly borrowed from early Old East Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Slavic *gnědъ (“brown, chestnut”). Cognates include Karelian niätä and Veps näd. Possibly displaced Proto-Finnic *nuksi (“marten”).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kuna. First attested in the 16th century.
Etimoloji
From Middle Dutch marter, maerter, martel, which is generally believed to be a reborrowing from Old French martre, itself from Proto-West Germanic *marþr (“marten”), which see. Alternatively, however, the irregular /t/ (instead of *marder) might be due to a special development of West Germanic *þ in the difficult cluster *rþr (either early stopping to *rtr or otherwise failure to undergo voicing…