köken: Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē)bor. Latin phōcabor. Middle French phoque French phoque Inherited from Middle French phoque f, focque m, borrowed from Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē). Cognate with Italian foca f and Spanish foca f.
aile: ouate de phoque, phoque barbu
Des reflets s’enfonçaient à pic dans la Seine. La surface du fleuve remuait comme s’il y avait des phoques sous l’eau.
köken: Uncertain; compare English rabbit. Or, possibly related to Latvian rups (“coarse, rough”), referring to the whiskers. Also compared is the personal name Robbe. Has also compared to English rub, referring to seals' movements, but this is unlikely.
a seal, specifically the earless seal or true seal
köken: Originally a compound of Old Japanese elements 痣 (aza, “bruise”) + 等 (ra, “lots of”, a pluralizer) + 獣 (shi, “beast”, especially one used for meat). The bruise meaning was in reference to the spotted coat. However, this is problematic phonetically, as the 獣 character is irregularly read as shishi, and not just shi. The kanji are jukujikun (熟(じゅく)字(じ)訓(くん)), from Chinese 海豹 (hǎibào, literally “sea…
köken: Etymology tree Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē)bor. Latin phōcabor. Middle French phoque French phoquebor. Polish foka Borrowed from French phoque, from Latin phoca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).
seal (common language term for smaller pinnipeds; used mainly of earless or true seals but sometimes also covering the eared seals) · earless seal, true seal (any seal of the family Phocidae)
çekim: çoğul hylkeet · tamlayan hylkeen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hülgeh (see it for more details). Cognate with Estonian hüljes.