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Unke.

fire-bellied toad (genus Bombina).

4 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈʊŋkə/
  1. fire-bellied toad (genus Bombina).

    feminine
  2. pessimist, doomsayer

    colloquial · derogatory · feminine
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German unc (“snake, basilisk”), from Old High German unc (“snake”), from Proto-Germanic *ungwô, *unkaz (“snake, adder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥gʷʰ-, zero-grade stem of *h₂éngʷʰis (compare Latin anguis, Lithuanian angi̇̀s). The sense may have been influenced by obsolete Eutze (“toad”) (modern Bavarian Hötsch).

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