svelung.
a small or half-grown salmon, especially one weighing less than approximately three kilograms
Meaning & usage
a small or half-grown salmon, especially one weighing less than approximately three kilograms
Where this word comes from
From dialectal Norwegian silung, with the first syllable apparently remodelled through association with svele (“small or half-grown salmon”) or a related dialectal form. The older form is represented by Norwegian Nynorsk silung (“small or half-grown salmon”), from Old Norse sílungr (“small salmon; trout”), itself derived from síl (“herring; probably originally fish fry”), from Proto-Germanic *sīlą. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk svelung, sveling, and Icelandic silungur (“small salmon; trout”).
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