köken: From Old Swedish ströminger. Possibly a variant of obsolete strömling (of disputed origin), or derived from strömma (“to stream”) suffixed with -ing. Compare dialectal Norwegian strømming (“small herring”).
Baltic herring, Clupea harengus membras · A drafted navy soldier.
çekim: çoğul silakat · tamlayan silakan
köken: Possibly borrowed from Swedish sillake, from sill (“herring”) + lake (“brine”) (compare saltlake), referring to the brine herrings were salted with, in which case the original meaning was “salted herring” (indeed found in some dialects). The word may have been influenced by salakka, another word for a fish, in both form and meaning. Alternatively, according to Jakob (2023), the Finnic, Germanic…
herring (many fish species of the family Clupeidae, especially Clupea harengus membras, which is about 25 centimeters long, with a bluish green back and silvery sides)
çekim: çoğul reņģes · tamlayan reņģes
köken: Apparently borrowed from Old Frisian hareng (“herring”) (itself maybe from here (“swarm, school of fish”), i.e. originally “school of fish” > “fish that swims in schools”), with loss of the initial syllable (*hareng > *renge > reņģe). This loanword is already found in 16th-century family names, and later in 17th-century dictionaries.
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