Noun: otter
| Singular | otter |
| Plural | otters; otter |
Sample Sentences
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'The Aleuts come from a country far to the north,' he said. 'Their ways are not ours nor is their language. They have come to take otter and to give us our share in many goods which they have and which we can use. [1960, Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Puffin Books, page 11:]
Nouns inflected like otter
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English oter, otir, otur, otyre, from Old English otor, from Proto-West Germanic *otr, from Proto-Germanic *utraz, from Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“aquatic, water-animal”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”).
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Otter, Dutch otter, German Otter, Swedish utter, Norwegian oter, Icelandic otur, Sanskrit उद्र (udrá), Russian вы́дра (výdra), and Ancient Greek ὕδρα (húdra, “water snake”). Doublet of Hydra and hydra. More etymology under English water. See: Middle English Nouns '
oter', Old English Nouns '
otor', Dutch Nouns '
otter', German Nouns '
Otter', Swedish Nouns '
utter', Icelandic Nouns '
otur', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὕδρα'.
Verbs referencing "otter"
French Nouns
loutre, Russian Nouns
выдра, Ancient Greek Nouns
ὕδρος, Ancient Greek Nouns
ὕδρα, Latvian Nouns
ūdrs, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
oter.