kuore.
European smelt, sparling (Osmerus eperlanus)
Meaning & usage
European smelt, sparling (Osmerus eperlanus)
smelt; freshwater smelt, true smelt (any fish of family Osmeridae)
herring smelt (any fish of the family Argentinidae)
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *koorëh, possibly from Proto-Uralic *korɜ. Cognate with Karelian kuoreh, Veps koreh, Livvi kuorʹoi and possibly Komi-Zyrian гурина (gurina), Northern Selkup [script needed] (k͔oor) and Kamassian [script needed] (kuru). Related to Russian ко́рюшка (kórjuška), likely a Finnic or earlier loan.
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