Etymology
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From Middle English newte, newete, a form resulting from an incorrect division (a process known as rebracketing) of Middle English an ewte as a newte (for similar misdivisions compare adder, nickname, apron, umpire, etc.). Middle English evete, eute, euete, ewte (“newt”), derives from Old English efete (“lizard; newt”). Doublet of eft.
Pronunciation
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newt (plural newts)
- A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult.
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type of salamander
- Albanian: triton m
- Arabic: سَمَنْدَل m (samandal)
- Armenian: տրիտոն (hy) (triton)
- Assamese: নিউট (niut)
- Azerbaijani: triton, səməndər
- Basque: uhandre
- Belarusian: трыто́н m (trytón)
- Bulgarian: дъждо́вник (bg) m (dǎždóvnik), трито́н m (tritón)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: tritó m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 蠑螈/蝾螈 (wing4 jyun4)
- Mandarin: 蠑螈/蝾螈 (zh) (róngyuán)
- Czech: mlok (cs) m, čolek (cs) m
- Dutch: salamander (nl) m
- Erzya: ведьметьказ (veďmeťkaz)
- Esperanto: trituro
- Estonian: vesilik (et), triiton
- Finnish: vesilisko (fi)
- French: triton (fr) m
- Galician: tritón (gl) m
- Georgian: ტრიტონი (ṭriṭoni)
- German: Molch (de) m
- Greek: τρίτων (el) m (tríton)
- Ancient: κορδύλος m (kordúlos)
- Hebrew: טרִיטוֹן m (triton)
- Hindi: सरटिका f (sarṭikā)
- Hungarian: gőte (hu)
- Irish: niút m, earc m
- Italian: tritone (it) m
- Japanese: イモリ (ja) (imori), 井守 (ja) (いもり, imori), 蠑螈 (ja) (いもり, imori)
- Kazakh: тритон (triton)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 영원(蠑螈) (ko) (yeong'won)
- Kyrgyz: тритон (triton)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: stelliō m
- Latvian: tritons m
- Lithuanian: tritonas m
- Macedonian: до́ждовник m (dóždovnik)
- Norman: lêzarde dg'ieau f
- Persian: سمندرک (samandarak)
- Plautdietsch: Äajdakjsel m
- Polish: traszka (pl) f
- Portuguese: tritão (pt) m
- Romanian: triton (ro) m
- Russian: трито́н (ru) m (tritón), салама́ндра (ru) f (salamándra) (salamander)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: водењак m
- Roman: vodenjak (sh) m
- Slovak: mlok (sk) m
- Slovene: pupek (sl) m
- Spanish: tritón (es) m
- Swedish: vattenödla (sv) c
- Tagalog: triton
- Thai: นิวต์ (níu)
- Turkish: semender (tr)
- Turkmen: triton
- Ukrainian: трито́н m (trytón)
- Uzbek: triton (uz)
- Vietnamese: sa giông
- Volapük: (male or female) salmun
- Welsh: madfall ddŵr f
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