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”).
a viper, an adder, common European adder, Vipera berus
çekim: çoğul hugorme · tamlayan hugorms
köken: From Old Danish hugorm, from Old Norse hǫggormr (“a serpent”). Equivalent to hugge + orm. Cognates include Icelandic höggormur, Faroese høggormur, Swedish huggorm and Norwegian hoggorm.
viper, adder (poisonous snake with triangular head, especially Vipera berus) · bad, evil person
çekim: çoğul odzes · tamlayan odzes
köken: Originally the 5th-declension parallel (analogical) form of an earlier 6th-declension (feminine i-stem) form *odzis (cf. dialectal odzs), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ángis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éngʷʰis. Cognates include Lithuanian angi̇̀s, Old Prussian angis (“snake”), Proto-Slavic *ǫžь (“snake”) (Russian уж (už, “grass snake”), Belarusian, Ukrainian вуж (vuž), Czech užovka (“adder”), Polish…
odze ir vienīgā indīgā čūska Latvijā
krāsa odzei ļoti variē: pelēcīgi brūna, sarkanīgi brūna, zaļganīgi brūna vai dzeltenīgi brūna
köken: Derived from -rästi (in the compound risti-rästi, meaning "transverse"), referencing the pattern of the snake. -rästi is likely a variant of the root of rist (“cross”). Possibly formed under influence from German. Compare German Kreuzotter (“viper”) and Kreuz (“cross”).