gremxul
Pronunciation: /ɡrɛmˈʃuːl/
“gremxul” is a Maltese word. Its 5 meanings in English:
noun
- lizards
- greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus)
- straightnose pipefish (Nerophis ophidion)
- broadnosed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle)
- lizardfish
Etymology
Uncertain. An earlier proposal derives the term from Arabic دَرَمَ (darama, “to run with short steps (said of a hare or hedgehog)”) + شَوِل (šawil), شَوْل (šawl, “agile, swift”), though such verb-adjective compounds are not a typical means of noun formation in Arabic. Lameen Souag (2018) proposes an alternative derivation from Berber, compare Nefusa ažrəmšan (“lizard”) etc. This would have been…
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