köken: Inherited from Old French lutre, from Latin lutra. In Old French, there were variants leurre (which is the normal phonetic result) and loirre (from a Vulgar Latin form *lutria, influenced by Ancient Greek ἔνυδρις (énudris); cf. Occitan luria, Catalan llúdria, Spanish lutria, nutria). The standard modern form loutre probably maintained the -t- due to influence from Frankish and Germanic (compare…
aile: loutre commune, loutre de mer, loutre d'Europe, loutre européenne
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese *lontra, from a Vulgar Latin variant of Latin lutra. First attested in Gil Vicente's Auto das Fadas. Cf. also Old Galician-Portuguese luntria, attested in 1253.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *udrós Proto-Indo-Iranian *udrás Sanskrit उद्र (udra) Prakrit 𑀉𑀤𑁆𑀤 (udda) Hindi ऊद Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit उद्द (udda), from Sanskrit उद्र (udrá), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“otter”). Doublet of उद्र (udra), a tatsama. Cognate with Russian вы́дра (výdra) and Old English otor (whence…
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vydra, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ūdrāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós. Doublet of hydra.