| Remarks |
'Redspotted', i.e., with red spots; 'red' from prehistoric Germanic 'rauthaz' (German 'rot', Dutch 'rood', Swedish 'röd', Danish 'rød') from Latin 'ruber, rubeus, russus, rufus' from Greek 'eruthrós', i.e., red, from Indo-European base 'reudh-' (p. 435 in Ref. 11979); 'spots' borrowed from Low German 'spot' or Middle Dutch 'spotte' from prehistoric Germanic 'sput-' (Norwegian 'spott', i.e., speck/spot) and maybe connected to Old English 'splott', i.e., spot (p. 495 in Ref. 11979); 'char' of unknown origin (p. 227 in Ref. 11978). |