Masculine
Meaning
seal, any member of the family Phocidae
Concepts
Synonyms
zeerob
Frequency
Hyphenated as
zee‧hond
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈzeːɦɔnt/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch seehont. By surface analysis, zee (“sea”) + hond (“hound, dog”). Middle Dutch seehont, is possibly an alteration of seelhont (literally “seal-hound, seal-dog”), from seel (“seal”), from Proto-Germanic *selhaz. Compare Low German Saalhund (“seal”).
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