Etymology

weretiger

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Today it means: A creature of Southeast Asian myth; a shapeshifter who can assume the shape of a tiger. Full definition →

English tiger ← Middle English tygre ← Old English tigras
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The story

  1. Englishwere-
  2. Ancient Greekτίγρις (tígris)
  3. Latintigri
  4. Anglo-Normantigre
  5. Latintigris
  6. Proto-West Germanic*tīgr
  7. Old Englishtigras
  8. Middle Englishtygre
  9. Englishtiger
  10. English todayweretiger

From were- + tiger.

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