Unke

1. (feminine) fire-bellied toad (genus Bombina).
2. (colloquial, derogatory, feminine) pessimist, doomsayer

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

gillerugger

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʊŋkə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German: unke

Inherited from Old High German: unc

Cognate with Latin: anguis

Cognate with Lithuanian: angìs

In summary

From Middle High German unke (“snake, basilisk”), from Old High German unc (“snake”), from Proto-Germanic *unkwô, *unkwiz (“snake, adder”),
from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥gʷʰ-, variant of *h₂éngʷʰis (compare Latin anguis, Lithuanian angi̇̀s). The sense may have been influenced by obsolete Eutze ‘toad’ (modern Bavarian Hötsch).

Concepts

toad

fire-bellied toad

frog

🐸

lobster

🦞

anuran

Synonyms

Kröte

Frosch

🐸

Gecke

Strahl des Pferdes

Fretsche

Eisenauflage

Froschlurch

Translations

sapo

gripau

άκερκα

βάτραχος

φρύνος

άνουρα/άκερκα

anur

φρύνοι

άνουρα

crapaud

grenouille

🐸

sonneur

raine

crapaud sonneur

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