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otchek
Cree (Algonquian) · pre-1600s
"a burrowing rodent"
the name for the burrowing rodent, reshaped by folk etymology into "woodchuck"
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woodchuck
English · 1600s-1700s
"a burrowing rodent, also called a groundhog"
adopted and reshaped by English colonists in North America
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