armadillo
armadillo (n.)1570s, from Spanish armadillo, diminutive of armado \\\"armored,\\\" from Latin armatu...
badger
badgerbadger: [16] The Old English term for a ‘badger’ was brock, a word of Celtic origin, and badge...
bat
batbat: Bat as in ‘cricket bat’ [OE] and bat the animal [16] come from entirely different sources. B...
bear
bearbear: [OE] The two English words bear ‘carry’ and bear the animal come from completely different...
beaver
beaverbeaver: [OE] Like bear, beaver appears to mean etymologically ‘brown animal’. Old English beof...
bison
bisonbison: [14] Bison appears to be of Germanic origin, from a stem *wisand- or *wisund-. This beca...
buffalo
buffalobuffalo: [16] English probably acquired buffalo from Portuguese bufalo, originally naming the...
calf
calfcalf: English has two distinct words calf, both of Germanic origin. Calf ‘young cow’ goes back t...
camel
camelcamel: [OE] Naturally enough, camel is of Semitic origin: Hebrew has gāmāl, for example, and Ar...
chimpanzee
chimpanzee (n.)1738, from a Bantu language of Angola (compare Tshiluba kivili-chimpenze \\\"ape\\\")...