köken: From Middle High German karpfe, from Old High German karpho. The Central German form Karpe(n) was widespread in earlier modern German (well into the 19th century and well into Upper German territory). This may be a reason why the form has not been simplified to *Karfen, it being the only word in modern standard German in which -rpf- has not been simplified to -rf-. Further origin unsettled;…
carp (Cyprinus carpio) · any of various, related freshwater fish species of the family Cyprinidae
çekim: çoğul karpers
köken: Inherited from Middle Dutch carpere / carpe, further unknown. Possibly from Late Latin carpa; cognates include English carp, French carpe, Russian карп (karp), Serbo-Croatian krȁp / kárpa, Italian carpione. Might stem from a non-Indo-European substrate language native to the Alps.
carp (fish) in general · the common carp, Cyprinus carpio carpio
köken: First attested in the Gugeupganibang eonhae (救急簡易方諺解 / 구급간이방언해), 1489, as Middle Korean 리ᇰ〯어 (Yale: lǐngè). Nativisation of the Sino-Korean term 이어 (鯉魚, ieo, “carp fish”). Due to its compounded position, the form has been able to preserve the /ŋ-/ initial of the Middle Chinese reading of 魚 (MC ngjo), which is lost in standard Sino-Korean.
köken: Unattested in Late Latin, from an unattested Germanic source (possibly Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍀𐌰 (*karpa)). Surmised only from Old French carpe, Italian carpa. Compare Old High German karpho (from which German Karpfen). Suggestions as to the further origin of the supposed Gothic word are speculative. It has been compared with Sanskrit शफर (śaphara), Welsh carp, Lithuanian šapalas. However, the un-shifted…