Gint

Translingual

Etymology

The genus name is borrowed from Amharic ጊንጥ (ginṭ, “scorpion”) and the genus' gender as masculine, according to the taxon authors.[1] The genus' type species, Gint gaitako, was found in Ethiopia, where Amharic is the official language.

Proper noun

Gint m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Buthidae – certain scorpions of the Horn of Africa.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kovařík, František; Lowe, Graeme; Plíšková, Jana; Šťáhlavský, František (29 October 2014), “A New Scorpion Genus, Gint gen. n., from the Horn of Africa (Scorpiones: Buthidae)”, in Euscorpius‎[1] (overall work in English), page 1

East Central German

Proper noun

Gint m

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) a diminutive of the male given name Günther

Further reading

  • Hendrik Heidler (11 June 2020), Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎[2] (in German), 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53
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