The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφάσκωλος“pouch, wallet”
- translingual · derived fromPhascogale
- English todayphascogale
From genus name, translingual Phascogale (from Ancient Greek φάσκωλος (pháskōlos, “pouch, wallet”) + γαλέη (galéē, “weasel”)), classified 1824 by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφάσκωλος all →
phascolome
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.