greedy for money or property, avaricious, covetous · insatiable for food
eş: ҡомағай
köken: Unclear. Possibly reinterpreted as having the abessive ending from a Mongolic archetype (compare Mongolian хомс (xoms, “insufficient, scanty”)). See also ҡомағай (qomağay), which is clearly of Mongolic origin and appears to have the same primary root syllable (qom-).
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…
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…