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**Wrencytet** · 12-15-2011, 10:51 AM

See this has been bugging me for days. A newt is an amphibian, not a reptile

A technicality.

"Adult newts have lizard-like bodies..."

"The etymology for this term has gone through a complex twist of old Middle English variations. The oldest form of the name is eft, which is still used for newly metamorphosed specimens, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary it changed for unknown reasons first to euft and then to ewt. For some time it remained as an ewt, but the "n" from the indefinite article an shifted to form a newt. The sexually mature stage was also called an ewte, with similar etymology roots linking an ewte, newt, "euft", and eft: "small lizard-like animal,"

He's a lizard. Don't be fooled.

12-15-2011, 10:51 AM	#33
Wrencytet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	See this has been bugging me for days. A newt is an amphibian, not a reptile A technicality. "Adult newts have lizard-like bodies..." "The etymology for this term has gone through a complex twist of old Middle English variations. The oldest form of the name is eft, which is still used for newly metamorphosed specimens, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary it changed for unknown reasons first to euft and then to ewt. For some time it remained as an ewt, but the "n" from the indefinite article an shifted to form a newt. The sexually mature stage was also called an ewte, with similar etymology roots linking an ewte, newt, "euft", and eft: "small lizard-like animal," He's a lizard. Don't be fooled.
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