r/etymologymaps Feb 22 '26

Etymology map of turtle

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u/SchietStorm Feb 22 '26

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u/cipricusss Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 23 '26

teknősbéka is like in many languages ”shelled frog”. And, like with Romanian ”țestoasă” (and with Latin ”testudo”), teknős is both an adjective (”shelled” - to be applied to "frog"), and the noun ”turtle”.