Newt
WordNet
noun
(1) Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From the older forms ewt, from euft, from eft, Old English efete. The n comes from hearing “an ewt” as “a newt”; compare apron, nickname, orange, daffodil, and, for a similar phenomenon, trickle.
Noun
- a small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult.
See also
- Wikipedia article on newts
- Wikipedia article on the indefinite articles a and an