dolphin · Delphinus · ellipsis of Delphinschwimmen (“butterfly stroke”)
çekim: çoğul Delphine · tamlayan Delphins
köken: From Middle High German delfīn, telfīn (13th c.), from Latin delphinus. Forms with diphthongization (Delphein) are hardly attestable, meaning that it was not fully integrated before the Modern German period.
Delphine sind die mit Abstand intelligentesten aller Tiere.
1776, Neuer Schauplatz der Natur nach den richtigsten Beobachtungen und Versuchen. Zweyter Band, Leipzig, page 309
Die 21 schon den Alten bekannten nördlichen Sternbilder sind ... der Delphin oder das Meerschwein, delphinus.
köken: Inherited from Middle French criquet, from Old French criket, from Old French criquer (“to crack, creak”), of Germanic origin. Compare Dutch kriek, krekel (“cricket”), English creak.
grasshopper, locust, especially when toasted as food · small child, tot · a person who flirts with or comes on to their friends' partners or romantic interests.
çekim: çoğul chapulines
eş: saltamontes, langosta
köken: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chapolin (“grasshopper”).
grasshopper, locust (insect of the suborder Caelifera or infraorder Acrididea)
çekim: çoğul sprinkhanen
köken: From Middle Dutch sprinchane, from Old Dutch sprinco (“grasshopper”) + hano (“cock, rooster”). The extension is believed to be due to association with the rooster’s twitching movements. Old Dutch sprinco continues Proto-West Germanic *sprinkō (cognate with Middle High German höusprinke), derived from *springan (“to jump”).
köken: Unknown. Possibly from a root *flutulus, or deverbative from flutura. Related to Albanian flutur, and possibly derived from it; alternatively, it may have a substratum root akin to it, or simply be of imitative origin. Compare also Aromanian flitur.