•common whitefish, lavaret (Coregonus lavaretus), or any of its subspecies. · Any fish in the genus Coregonus with the exception of muikku (Coregonus albula)
köken: Uncertain, possibly from Portuguese farra (“party”), which could ultimately be from dialectal Arabic فَرْحَة (farḥa, “joy”), dialectally also "party".
köken: Inherited from Middle Russian сигъ (sig) attested in 1496, borrowed from Old Novgorodian сиге (sige). Ultimately from Proto-Finnic *siika, of unknown further origin. Compare also Swedish sik, Norwegian Nynorsk sik and Latvian sīga.
aile: атланти́ческий сиг
Coregonus vandesius, vendace (species)
Coregonus lavaretus or Coregonus pennantii, gwyniad/gwuniad (species)
From Proto-Finnic *siika, of unknown further origin, but related words are found in Germanic (Swedish sik), Baltic (Latvian sīga) and Slavic (Russian сиг (sig)); the word has been variously thought to originate from any one of those three and might ultimately be from a substrate.