What is the name meaning of OTTER. Phrases containing OTTER
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OTTER
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English
English : occupational name for a player on the lute, Middle English lutar, an agent derivative of lute.English : metonymic occupational name for an otter hunter, from Old French loutre ‘otter’.Dutch : variant of Luther 1.
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American, British, English, German, Greek
Otter; Song; Rich
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : from a diminutive of Old French loutre ‘otter’ (Latin lutra), applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an otter, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who hunted otters (for their pelts). Compare Luter.
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Irish
Means “â€gentle childâ€â€ or “â€well born.â€â€ St. Kevin founded a great monastery at Glendalough in County Wicklow in the seventh century. Noted as a man who wasn’t always comfortable in the company of other human beings, he was very much at home with the animals. One story tells that while Kevin was praying a blackbird came and nested in his hand. He remained at prayer, motionless, until the eggs had hatched. In another story, when he dropped his psalter in a lake an otter came by and retrieved it. The name is still very popular in Ireland.
Girl/Female
Norse
Sister of Otter.
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English, German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for an otter hunter, or nickname for someone supposedly resembling an otter, from Middle English, Middle High German oter, Middle Dutch otter, German Otter ‘otter’. The Jewish surname can be ornamental.English : from the late Old English personal name Ohthere, a borrowing of Old Norse Óttar, composed of the elements ótti ‘fear’, ‘dread’ + herr ‘army’. In Scotland the Old Norse name is the source.French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements aud, od ‘wealth’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
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Norse
Sister of Otter.
OTTER
OTTER
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals, to be used in the production of fur garments or to be tanned for leather, from an agent derivative of Middle English skin ‘hide’, ‘pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
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Tamil
Divine power
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British, Christian, English, German
Little Girl
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Norse Russian Swedish American Scandinavian Teutonic
Holy.
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Tamil
Deer
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Arabic
Generous; Liberal
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American, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Latin, Spanish
Crowned; Crowned in Victory; Variant of Stephen
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Muslim
Pl of hazz, Fortune, Good l
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Arabic, Muslim
Slave of the One who Conceals Faults
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Hindu
A person who attains fame and glory
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n.
A corruption of Annotto.
n.
The larva of the ghost moth. It is very injurious to hop vines.
v. t.
The dung of an otter.
n.
Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South America and Asia.
n.
The sea otter.
n.
The mink; -- called also minx otter.