köken: Borrowed from Norman crevette, attested in 1532, from earlier cravette, crabette. These are diminutives of crabe (“crab”), but may be influenced by a word going back to Frankish *krebit (“crayfish”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz, possibly via Middle Dutch crevet (“crayfish”), from Old Dutch *krevit. Compare also écrevisse, Old Saxon krevit, Old High German krebiz. More at crayfish. The word…
aile: cocktail de crevettes, crevette grise, crevette nordique, crevette rose
köken: From Middle Persian [script needed] (mdk' /ma(y)ik/), from Proto-Iranian *madika, a variant of Proto-Iranian *madaxa (“locust, grasshopper”), and thus related to ملخ (malax); see there for further information. The second component is from Middle Persian [Term?] (/-ūg/, “-like”).
shrimp, prawn (in general) · specifically, larger shrimp
eş: 생이縴縴, 새뱅이縴縴, 토하縴縴, 징거미縴縴, 새오縴縴, 생이縴縴
köken: First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446, as Middle Korean 사ᄫᅵ〮 (Yale: sàWí), from immediately pre-Middle Korean *sàp(o)í. Southern and eastern dialects preserve the medial */p/ as 새비 (saebi, “shrimp”).
aile: Proverbs, 고래 싸움에 새우 등 터진다, 새우로 잉어를 낚는다, Nouns, 꽃새우, 닭새우, 돗대기새우, 딱총새우, 물새우, 민새우
köken: Etymology tree French crevette Proto-Indo-European *-keh₂der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *-kāˀ Proto-Slavic *-ъka Old Polish -ka Polish -ka Polish krewetka From French crevette + Polish -ka.
köken: Inherited from Prakrit 𑀛𑀺𑀗 (jhiṅa), 𑀛𑀺𑀗𑀸 (jhiṅā), from a non-Aryan substrate language, from which Sanskrit गाङ्गट (gāṅgaṭa, “shrimp”), कर्कट (karkaṭa, “crab”) and चिङ्गटि (ciṅgaṭi, “shrimp, crab, cricket”) were also probably borrowed.
/jepi/ → /jebi/ → /ebi/ Possibly from Old Japanese, first attested in the Honzō Wamyō (918 CE). Ultimate derivation unclear, with theories including: * Shift in meaning from ebi, ancient reading of modern 葡萄 (budō, “grape”), from a resemblance in color * Shift in reading from epige, proposed compound of 良い (ei, “good”) + 髭 (pige → hige, “beard”) from the bearded appearance * Shift in reading from…