elft

Betekenis (Engels)

the allis shad, Alosa alosa

Sinonieme

meivis

Vertalings

alose

Maifisch

shad

sável

Alse

sábalo

alosa

allis shad

alosa

savelha

tirsi balığı

Miafisch

alewife

alose

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle Dutch: elft

Geërf van Old Dutch: *alvit

In summary

From Middle Dutch elft, possibly from an Old Dutch *alvit, from Proto-West Germanic *albut (“swan”). The semantic link to swans would be the fish's white color; the Germanic term ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European *albʰós (“white”). This Indo-European word is generally accepted to be the most likely origin of this word, even if elft were found not to derive directly from Germanic *albits but to have entered the language through some other route.