ondatra

See also: Ondatra

English edit

Etymology edit

From Huron / Wyandot^[1] ondatra or ondathra, attested in Gabriel Sagard's 1632 French Dictionnaire de la langue huronne^[2] and found in the Huron dialects of the Hochelaga region of Canada.^[3]

Noun edit

ondatra (plural ondatras)

(chiefly US, Canada) The muskrat.
- 1852, The Swiss Family Robinson, a translation of Johann David Wyss' German Der Schweizerische Robinson, chapter 39:
  The first was the musk-beaver, not much different from the ondatra, excepting in the formation of his snout.

References edit

^ Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (1910), edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, part 2
^ Jean-Paul Colin, Trésors des mots exotiques (1986), page 98: "Du huron ondathra (1632); nom indigène du rat musqué ou rat d'Amérique, assez proche du castor, ..."
^ Handbook of Indians of Canada (1969 edition), edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, page 361: "Ondatra. A name for the muskrat (Fiber zibethicus), derived from one of the Huron dialects of the Iroquoian language early current in the Hochelaga region of Canada."

Anagrams edit

adorant

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈondatra]

Noun edit

ondatra f

muskrat

Declension edit

Declension of ondatra (hard feminine reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	ondatra	ondatry
genitive	ondatry	ondater
dative	ondatře	ondatrám
accusative	ondatru	ondatry
vocative	ondatro	ondatry
locative	ondatře	ondatrách
instrumental	ondatrou	ondatrami