elft

Significado (Inglés)

the allis shad, Alosa alosa

Conceptos

sábalo

alosa

Sinónimos

meivis

Traducciones

alose

shad

Maifisch

sável

Alse

alosa

allis shad

alewife

grande alose

alaccia

agone

Alosa

Miafisch

savelha

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de neerlandés medio: elft

Heredado de 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.