Noun: oter
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Oteren hev symjehud millom tærna; han er greid til aa symja og liver av fisk. (The otter has webbed toes, it swims well and feeds on fish.) [1892, Hans Reusch, translated by Marius Hægstad, Naturkunna:]
Etymology
From Old Norse otr, from Proto-Germanic *utraz, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós. From the root *wed- (“water”). Akin to English otter. See: Old Norse Nouns '
otr', English Nouns '
otter'.
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