walrus

• n. セイウチ

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walrus

walrus: [17] Etymologically, a walrus is probably a ‘whale-horse’. The word seems to have been borrowed from Dutch walrus, which was an inversion of a presumed prehistoric Germanic compound represented by Old English horschw?l and Old Norse hrosshvalr. (The inversion may have been due to the influence of Dutch walvisch ‘whale’ – literally ‘whale-fish’ – but it could also owe something to French influence, since French noun compounds of this sort are often in the reverse order to corresponding Germanic ones.) The element wal- is clearly the same word as whale, and -rus is generally assumed to be horse.

It has, however, been suggested that the horsc- of the Old English term was an alteration of morsa, a name for the walrus of Lappish origin which is also the source of French morse ‘walrus’.
=> horse, whale

walrus (n.)

1650s, from Dutch walrus, which was probably a folk-etymology alteration (by influence of Dutch walvis "whale" and ros "horse") of a Scandinavian word, such as Old Norse rosmhvalr "walrus," hrosshvalr "a kind of whale," or rostungr "walrus." Old English had horschw?l, and later morse, from Lapp morsa or Finnish mursu, which ultimately might be the source, much garbled, of the first element in Old Norse rosmhvalr.

1. He is the queer old duck with the knee-length gaiters and walrus mustache.

彼は高さと膝の皮の保護脚を着て、海象のような八字胡を残している、本当に変わった老いぼれだ。

2.Mr Watkins，smoothing his walrus moustache，stood near a candle reading a month-old newspaper.

ワトキンスさんは海象式のひげを触って、ろうそくが1ヶ月前の古い新聞を読んでいるのに近づいている。

3.The shape of Wallus evolved out of the Manate species.

セイウチの外形はウミウシ種から進化したものである。

4.The old walrus turned head slowly and opened her eyes.

その老海象はゆっくりと振り向いて目を開けた。

5.It is the Elephant and Wallus Kingdoms that greet you today.

今日は象とセイウチの王国からご挨拶です。