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annet.

A duck or drake.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. A duck or drake.

    dialectal

  2. The common eider (Somateria mollissima).

    Scotland · dialectal

  3. A black-legged kittiwake.

    Cornwall · UK · West-Country · dialectal · obsolete

  4. A silly fellow; gull.

    dialectal · figuratively
Where this word comes from

From Middle English ende, enede, from Old English ened, æned (“drake, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *anad (“duck”), from Proto-Germanic *anadz (“duck”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oante (“duck”), West Frisian ein (“duck”), Dutch eend (“duck”), German Low German Aant (“duck”), German Ente (“duck”), Norwegian and Swedish and (“duck, mallard”), Icelandic önd (“duck”), Latin anas (“duck, drake”), Lithuanian antis (“duck, mallard”), Russian у́тка (útka, “duck”), Sanskrit आति (ātí, “aquatic bird”).

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