köken: Inherited from Koine Greek βελονίς (belonís), from Ancient Greek βελόνη (belónē). Has since developed a semantic loan from translingual Belonidae.
the Pacific saury or mackerel pike, Cololabis saira
köken: Uncertain, theories include: * An alteration from earlier compound 狭 (sa, “narrow”, in reference to the slender body of the fish) + 真魚 (mana, “edible fish”): *: /samana/ → /samuma/ → /samːa/ * An alternative derivation suggests 狭間 (sama, “narrow space”) + 魚 (na, “fish”, ancient term, and part of the roots of modern reading sakana), where ma again references the narrowness of the fish's body, but…
köken: makrilli (“mackerel”) + hauki (“pike”), from the taxonomic name of the family Scomberesocidae which is combined of Latin scomber (“mackerel”) and esox (“pike”)