Yiddish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ערד (erd, “earth”) + שווײַן (shvayn, “pig”), calque of Afrikaans erdvark.
ערדשווײַן • (erdshvayn) m
- aardvark (Orycteropus afer)
References[edit]
- Paul Abelson (1915) “aardvark”, in English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary, New York: The Jewish Press