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 (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”).
basilisk (mythical snake-like dragon, so venomous that even its gaze was deadly) · basilisk (any tree-dwelling lizard of the genus Basiliscus) · snake (treacherous person)
çekim: çoğul bazyliszki · tamlayan bazyliszka
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *gʷatiléus Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλεύς (băsĭleús) Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Ancient Greek -ῐ́σκος (-ĭ́skos) Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλῐ́σκος (băsĭlĭ́skos)bor. Latin basiliscuslbor. Old Czech bazilišekbor. Old Polish bazyliszek Polish bazyliszek Inherited from Old Polish bazyliszek.
common European adder (Vipera berus, the only natural species of viper in Finland) · viper (Viperidae)
çekim: çoğul kyyt · tamlayan kyyn
eş: kyykäärme
köken: From Proto-Finnic *küü (compare Estonian küü), possibly from Proto-Uralic *kije (compare Erzya гуй (guj), Moksha куй (kuj), Hungarian kígyó), or alternatively an old clipping for kyykäärme (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).
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.
adder, snake, serpent, viper · someone who is malicious, vicious, treacherous
çekim: çoğul vīperae · tamlayan vīperae
köken: Contraction of *vivipera, an alteration of vivipara, the feminine of vīviparus (literally “livebearing”), referring to the young being born alive and whole (as opposed to being formed in a laid egg), from vīvus (“alive”) + pariō (“to give birth”) + -us (noun-forming suffix).
köken: From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ángis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”). Cognate with Latvian ôdze, Old Prussian angis (“snake”), Russian уж (už, “grass snake”), Latin anguis (“snake, serpent, dragon”), Old Armenian աւձ (awj, “snake, serpent”).