marmot

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  1. noun Any of various stocky, coarse-furred, burrowing rodents of the genus Marmota, having short legs and ears and short bushy tails and found throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

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  • A big rodent called a marmot wandered in the front door of a restaurant in Prosser on Monday and settled into a corner.
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  • The name marmot comes from French marmotte, from Old French marmotan, marmontaine, from Old Franco-Provençal, from Low Latin mures montani "mountain mouse", from Latin mures monti, from Classical Latin mures alpini "Alps mouse". —  Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
  • Whatever the origin of "marmot" - is it really possible that the Hebrew word marmuta, which means groundhog - a type of marmot - isn't related to the word marmot or marmotte? —  Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
  • He identifies the marmita as a marmot (specifically the Arctomys Marmota). —  Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
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  1. French marmotte, from Old French, perhaps from marmotter, to mumble, probably of imitative origin.

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  1. Formerly marmotto (from Italian); = Dutch marmot(-dier), from French marmotte = Spanish Portuguese marmota, from Italian marmotto, marmotta, marmontana, from Romansch marmont = Swedish dial. murmet, from Old High German murmunto, muremunto, murmunti, murmenti, Middle High German mürmendīn, German murmel(-thier) = Danish murmel(-dyr) = Swedish murmel(-djur); variously altered from Middle Latin mus montanus, a marmot, literally ‘mountain mouse’: see mouse and mountain.
 

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