English
antechinus
Antechinus comes from mul-tax Antechinus.
- mul-taxmodernAntechinus
- Englishearliest quotation 1873antechinus
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- mul-taxmodernAntechinus
- Englishearliest quotation 1873antechinus
Earliest quotation: 1873, Gerard Krefft, Australian Natural History: “These are distinguished from the Monodelphia, or Placentalia, by…”
Every English word from mul-tax Antechinus
Today it means
noun Any member of the genus Antechinus of small carnivorous Australian marsupials that resemble shrews.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / mul-tax Antechinus / antechinus