crayfish

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
2. (New-England, Pennsylvania) Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
3. (Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
4. (Australia) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
5. (Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).

Verb

1. (intransitive) To catch crayfish.
2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of crawfish (to backpedal, desert, or withdraw).

Conceptos

cangrejo

🦀

cangrejo de río

langosta

🦞

cáncer

♋

camarón de río

animal crustáceo

ástaco

acamaya

kankro

cangrejo de mar

jaiba

🦀

camarón de ley

Sinónimos

crawfish

lobster

🦞

crawdad

prawn

crab

🦀

rock lobster

langouste

spiny lobster

shrimp

🦐

ecrevisse

crawdaddy

sea crawfish

crawfish

shellfish

craw daddy

cray

crustacean

scorpion

🦂

sea crayfish

Cancer

♋

Astacus

freshwater crayfish

Old World crayfish

Traducciones

écrevisse

gambero

Krebs

rivierkreeft

cancer

🦀

caranguejo

🦀

kreeft

🦞

Flusskrebs

granchio

🦀

zoetwaterkreeft

lagostim

langoustine

aragosta

langouste

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈkɹeɪˌfɪʃ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con alto alemán antiguo: krebiz

Cognado con Middle Low German: krēvet

Cognado con neerlandés: kreeft

Cognado con inglés antiguo: crabba

In summary

Alteration (by folk etymological influence of fish) of Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice ("crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse), from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-, *gerebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”).
Akin to Old High German krebiz (Modern German Krebs (“crustacean, crab, crayfish”)), Middle Low German krēvet (“crab, crayfish”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”). More at crab.