sceadd
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Etymology
When comparing Old Norse skaddr and dialectal Norwegian skadd (“a small whitefish”), unless the languages all borrowed from each other, the [d] that occurs in all three is best explained as a borrowing from some European substrate language.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
sċeadd m
- shad (kind of fish)
Descendants
- English: shad
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sceadd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics. (2023). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
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