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sil.

fry (of fish, especially salmon, trout or minnow)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Cymraeg language

Meaning & usage

noun/siːl/
  1. fry (of fish, especially salmon, trout or minnow)

    masculine · not-mutable
  2. spawn (of fish, frogs, etc.)

    masculine · not-mutable
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Old Irish síl (“seed; semen; offspring”).

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