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newt
noun
(
plural
newts
)
a type of salamander
Translations:
German: Molch
Etymology:
From the older forms
ewt
, from
euft
, from
eft
, Old English
efete
. The
n
comes from hearing "an ewt" as "a newt"; compare
apple
,
nickname
,
orange
,
ox
, and, for a similar phenomenon,
trickle
.
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