silakka.
Baltic herring, Clupea harengus membras
Meaning & usage
Baltic herring, Clupea harengus membras
A drafted navy soldier.
Where this word comes from
Possibly borrowed from Swedish sillake, from sill (“herring”) + lake (“brine”) (compare saltlake), referring to the brine herrings were salted with, in which case the original meaning was “salted herring” (indeed found in some dialects). The word may have been influenced by salakka, another word for a fish, in both form and meaning. Alternatively, according to Jakob (2023), the Finnic, Germanic and Baltic words may derive from a substrate.
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