elft

Senso (Inglese)

the allis shad, Alosa alosa

Concetti

alaccia

agone

sinonimi

meivis

Traduzioni

alose

shad

Maifisch

sável

Alse

sábalo

alosa

alosa

allis shad

Alosa

Miafisch

savelha

tirsi balığı

rock herring

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da olandese medio: elft

Ereditato da 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.