köken: Borrowed from New Latin echidna, from Ancient Greek ἔχιδνα (ékhidna, “viper”), or alternatively from Latin echīnus, from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”).
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”).
common European adder (Vipera berus, the only natural species of viper in Finland) · viper (Viperidae)
çekim: çoğul kyyt · tamlayan kyyn
eş: kyykäärme
köken: From Proto-Finnic *küü (compare Estonian küü), possibly from Proto-Uralic *kije (compare Erzya гуй (guj), Moksha куй (kuj), Hungarian kígyó), or alternatively an old clipping for kyykäärme (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).
echidna, spiny anteater (any of the species of small spined monotremes in the family Tachyglossidae, the four extant species of which are found in Australia and southern New Guinea)
çekim: çoğul hangyászsünök
köken: From hangyász (“anteater”) + sün (“hedgehog”).
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.