fox, Vulpes, genus within the family Canidae · vixen, female fox · fox (fur)
çekim: çoğul lišky · tamlayan lišky
eş: lišák
köken: Inherited from Old Czech liška, from Proto-Slavic *lišьka, from *lisъ. Nowadays form of the expression liška was probably also influenced by Proto-Slavic *lixъ (“bad”), maybe because the original word was taboo. Etymology of the expression *lisъ is not clear. It is often connected with Lithuanian lãpė, Latvian lapsa, Irish lois, Latin vulpes, Ancient Greek ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx), Old Armenian աղուէս…
Zrovna tak to dělávala doma matka liška, když otec lišák přicházíval až pozdě k večeru domů s potrhanou kůží […]
[…] dlouhosrsté výraznější kožešiny jako nutrie či modrá liška se používaly na zdobení kapes, na límce apod.
çekim: karşılaştırma ravaszabb · üstünlük legravaszabb
köken: From Old Hungarian ruoz (*ruosz) or ruvoz (*ruvosz), from *rowasə, borrowed from Alanic *roβas (“fox”) (compare Ossetian рувас (ruvas), робас (robas)).
köken: Unknown. There is no regular source of morpheme-medial -f- in Latin words inherited from Proto-Italic, which suggests that this word was borrowed, possibly from a non-Latin Italic language. There is a single attestation of a potential native Latin cognate *vaber in the form vabrum, found alongside "varium" and "multiforme" in a gloss to Isidore. These both can be derived from a common…
köken: From Old Georgian მელი (meli), the -ა (-a) is a petrified diminutive suffix. Ultimately from Proto-Georgian-Zan *mal- (“fox”). Cognate with Mingrelian მალი (mali).