köken: From Middle High German vilvrāz, from Old High German filifrāz. By surface analysis, viel (“much”) + Fraß, the latter being used here in the now obsolete sense “eater” (rather than “food”).
Meynt ihr, sagte der Bär, ich sey ein Vielfras? mit nichten! Maaß ist überall gut, bey allen Dingen[…]
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…
köken: From Old Swedish iærver, from Old Norse jarfr, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᚨᚠᚨᛉ (erafaʀ), of debated origin. Cognate with Faroese jarvur, Norwegian Nynorsk jerv & Norwegian Bokmål jerv, and possibly related to Old Norse jarpr (“brown”), Old English eorp (“brown; dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *erpaz (“light brown”).
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…