正如大部分古英语词，它来自于日耳曼语，跟现代德语中松鼠这个词一样，实际上是“橡树喇叭”的意思。

It, as most Old English words, came from Germanic and like the modern German word for squirrel essentially means "oak horn."

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我也参考了韦氏词典，其中把这一古老希腊词语跟别的希腊语——“glochin”或“glochis”联系了起来，这两个词的意思为“一个伸出来的点”，我想这也跟“伸出舌头”恰好相符了。

And I see that Merriam-Webster relates this old Greek word to another old Greek word glochin - or glochis meaning "a projecting point" which I guess fits with sticking out your tongue.

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