| shield-toad Jul 31st 2012, 22:23 | | | | Line 5: | Line 5: | | | | | | | | ===Etymology=== | | ===Etymology=== | | − | From {{compound|shield|toad}}. Compare {{term|shelled-toad|lang=en}}, {{term|shell-toad|lang=en}}. Compare also {{etyl|fy|-}} {{term|skyldpod||tortoise|lit=shield-toad|lang=fy}}, {{etyl|nl|-}} {{term|schildpad||tortoise|lit=shield-toad|lang=nl}}, {{etyl|de|-}} {{term|Schildkröte||tortoise|lit=shield-toad|lang=de}}, {{etyl|sv|-}} {{term|sköldpadda||tortoise|lang=sv}}, {{etyl|is|-}} {{term|sjaldbaka||turtle|lit=shield-back|lang=is}}. | + | From {{compound|shield|toad}}. Compare {{term|shelled-toad|lang=en}}, {{term|shell-toad|lang=en}}, {{term|shell-paddock|lang=en}}, Early Modern English {{term|shell padde|lang=en}}. Compare also {{etyl|fy|-}} {{term|skyldpod||tortoise|lit=shield-toad|lang=fy}}, {{etyl|nl|-}} {{term|schildpad||tortoise|lit=shield-toad|lang=nl}}, {{etyl|de|-}} {{term|Schildkröte||tortoise|lit=shield-toad|lang=de}}, {{etyl|sv|-}} {{term|sköldpadda||tortoise|lang=sv}}, {{etyl|is|-}} {{term|sjaldbaka||turtle|lit=shield-back|lang=is}}. | | | | | | | | ===Noun=== | | ===Noun=== |
Latest revision as of 22:23, 31 July 2012 [edit] English [edit] Alternative forms [edit] Etymology From shield + toad. Compare shelled-toad, shell-toad, shell-paddock, Early Modern English shell padde. Compare also West Frisian skyldpod ("tortoise", literally "shield-toad"), Dutch schildpad ("tortoise", literally "shield-toad"), German Schildkröte ("tortoise", literally "shield-toad"), Swedish sköldpadda ("tortoise"), Icelandic sjaldbaka ("turtle", literally "shield-back"). shield-toad (plural shield-toads) - A turtle or tortoise.
- 1956, Henry Goddard Leach, My last seventy years:
- I was particularly impressed by the, to me, exotic soups— the hot fruit soup, the chocolate soup, and particularly the thick mock turtle soup, called in Danish Forlorenskildpaddesuppe, which, literally translated means "Fake shield-toad soup."
- 1995, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies:
- Here is another example of the phenomenon: Doug: The Germans call a tortoise a SchiMkrote — literally, a "shield-toad". Carol; "Shield-toad"?! Come onl That's like' calling an eagle a "feather-cow"!
- 2009, Nicoline Van Der Sijs, Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops:
- From Dutch schildpad, meaning "turtle," from schild ("shield") and pad ("toad"), so literally "shieldtoad"; adopted in the seventeenth or eighteenth century and still used regionally.
- 2010, Hugh Peter McGrath, Michael Comenetz, Valery's Graveyard:
- But we already know that a shield-toad is a Frenchman, while the sun is Apollo's shield.
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