köken: Inherited from Middle French escureul, escuirel, escurel, from Old French escurel from Late Latin *scūriolus, diminutive of *scūrius, variant of Classical Latin sciūrus, from Ancient Greek σκίουρος (skíouros).
köken: Etymology tree Paleo-Hispanicbor.? Old Spanish (h)arda Early Modern Spanish (h)arda Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Latin -ella Old Spanish -iella Early Modern Spanish -illa Early Modern Spanish (h)ardilla Spanish ardilla Inherited from Early Modern Spanish (h)ardilla, from (h)arda (“squirrel”) + -illa (diminutive suffix).
aile: ardilla de Corea, ardilla listada, mono ardilla
köken: Inherited from Old East Slavic бѣлъка (bělŭka, “squirrel”), diminutive of бѣла (běla, “squirrel”) (see -ка (-ka)), from бѣла вѣверица (běla věverica, “white squirrel”), from Proto-Slavic *bělъka. See бе́лый (bélyj, “white”), ве́верица (véverica, “squirrel; ermine, stoat”).
squirrel · gray squirrel, Sciurus anomalus · fur of the gray squirrel
çekim: çoğul سنجابها
eş: وروره
köken: From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (snc'p /sanjâb/), perhaps from the same root as سمور (samur, “sable, Martes zibellina”). Cognate with Southern Kurdish سنجاو (sincaw).
chipmunk · squirrel; animal of the family Sciuridae, but normally excluding the 청설모 (cheongseolmo, “squirrel of the genus Sciurus”).
köken: First attested in the Dictionnaire coréen-français, 1880, as Early Modern Korean 다ᄅᆞᆷ쥐 (Yale: talomcwuy), from Middle Korean ᄃᆞ라미〮 (Yale: tòlàmí, “chipmunk”) + 쥐 (jwi, “mouse, rat”). By surface analysis, 달음 (dareum, “(dated) running”) + 쥐 (jwi, “mouse, rat”).
köken: Etymology tree Polish chomik Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₁-der.? Proto-Slavic *-ovati Old Polish -ować Polish -ować Polish chomikować From chomik + -ować. Compare German hamstern, formed analogously.
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic вѣверица (věverica), from Proto-Slavic *věverica, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer-. Compare Aromanian viviritsã.
squirrel (any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae)
çekim: çoğul סְנָאִים
köken: Clipping and back-formation of the phrase חֻלְדַּת הַסְּנָאִים (literally “bushrat”), with the second part being converted into a singular noun. The first appearance dates to Modern Hebrew.
First attested in 1665 as Ottoman Turkish چكهلز (çekelez) in Bernardo Da Parigi's dictionary. Further origin is uncertain. Perhaps a derivative of چكمك (çekmek).