John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668), p. 161. Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton (1789) p. 50: "the water-eft, or newt, is only the larva of the land-eft, as tadpoles are of frogs". Archibald Constable, Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications in the various departments of literature, science, & the arts, Volume 45 (1829), p. 63: "the salamandra aquatica of Hay, (the water-newt, or eft)".
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Volume 47 (1777), p. 321.
John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668), p. 161. Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton (1789) p. 50: "the water-eft, or newt, is only the larva of the land-eft, as tadpoles are of frogs". Archibald Constable, Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications in the various departments of literature, science, & the arts, Volume 45 (1829), p. 63: "the salamandra aquatica of Hay, (the water-newt, or eft)".
Wolfgang Pfeifer (ed.), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1997 (revised edition of Akademie Verlag, Munich 1989 and 1993), p. 265, s.v. Eidechse. Pfeifer gives the second element as germ. *þahsjō(n), relating it to Middle High Germandehse "distaff", so that both animals (lizard and badger) were parallelized due to their common, spindle-shaped bodies.
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