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- udder[udder 词源字典]
- udder: [OE] Udder goes back ultimately to prehistoric Indo-European *ūdhr-. This, or variants of it, produced the word for ‘udder’ in the majority of Indo-European languages: Greek oúthar, Latin ūber (source of English exuberant), Sanskrit údhar, Russian vymja, German euter, Dutch uier, Swedish juver, and Danish yver for instance, as well as English udder.
=> exuberant[udder etymology, udder origin, 英语词源] - udder (n.)
- Old English udder "milk gland of a cow, goat, etc.," from Proto-Germanic *udr- (cognates: Old Frisian uder, Middle Dutch uyder, Dutch uijer, Old High German utar, German Euter, and, with unexplained change of consonant, Old Norse jugr), from PIE *eue-dh-r "udder" (cognates: Sanskrit udhar, Greek outhar, Latin uber "udder, breast").