hamster

hamster
\ \ [17] The hamster is a native of western Asia and southeastern Europe, and its English name is of Slavic origin. In Old Slavic it was called chomestoru, and it appears that at some point in the past an ancestor of this was borrowed into Germanic. Old High German had hamustro, which became modern German hamster, source of the English word. In the 18th century the animal was also called the German rat.

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  • Hamster — Sm std. (11. Jh.), mhd. hamster, ahd. hamustro, as. hamustra f., hamustro Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus sloven. chomestor oder einer anderen westslavischen Sprache, (vgl. russ. kslav. choměstorŭ Hamster , die Teile in russ. chomják Hamster und lit.… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

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