Old English · noun
sceadd
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- IPA
- /ʃæ͜ɑdd/[ʃæ͜ɑd]
- Syllables
- ʃæ͜ɑdd (1 syllable)
Meaning
shad (kind of fish)
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.
Descendants
shad
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