peterb, Today I learned that the word 'skunk' derives from an Algonquian word that means, more or less, "pissing fox" and I have never loved a language so much.
(southern New England Algonquian language seganku, from Proto-Algonquian *šeka:kwa, from *šek- 'to urinate' + *-a:kw 'fox'. The š glyph in Americanist Phonetic Alphabet is roughly equivalent to ʃ in IPA.)