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(Inglese)

Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
(South-Africa) Any bluefish of species Pomatomus saltatrix.

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/ʃæd/

Ereditato da inglese medio

Ereditato da inglese antico

Affine gaelico scozzese

Affine gallese

Affine norvegese

Affine norse antico

In summary

From Middle English shadde, from Old English sceadd, possibly from Celtic (compare Scottish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian/North Germanic (compare dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”), Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”)), but the order of borrowing is unclear and the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.