Tatzelwurm

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tatzelwurm.

Noun

Tatzelwurm (plural Tatzelwurms)

  1. (cryptozoology) A worm-like cryptid reported to live in the Alps.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 736:
      Men had been known to quit work here, claiming that the Tatzelwurms were becoming enraged by all the drilling and explosions.

German

Etymology

From Tatze (“paw, claw”) +‎ Wurm (“worm”).

Noun

Tatzelwurm m (genitive Tatzelwurms or Tatzelwurmes, plural Tatzelwürmer)

  1. (cryptozoology) Tatzelwurm

Declension
Declension of Tatzelwurm
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Tatzelwurm die Tatzelwürmer
genitive eines des Tatzelwurmes,
Tatzelwurms		 der Tatzelwürmer
dative einem dem Tatzelwurm,
Tatzelwurme1		 den Tatzelwürmern
accusative einen den Tatzelwurm die Tatzelwürmer
1Now uncommon, see notes

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