köken: From Middle High German makrēle, from Middle Low German makkerēle, from Middle Dutch makereel, from Old French maquerel. Further origin unknown. Compare modern Dutch makreel, modern French maquereau, English mackerel.
köken: First attested in the Yeogeo yuhae (譯語類解 / 역어유해), 1690, as Early Modern Korean 고도리 (Yale: kwotwoli), if only the Hangul script is taken into account. However, the word is actually attested since the thirteenth century in the Sinicized form 古道魚 /古道鱼. In the late eighteenth century, this native word was misconstrued as being Sino-Korean (possibly influenced by the 古道魚 spelling) and the Sino-Korean…
Naples (a port city in southwestern Italy) · Simferopol (the capital of Crimea, generally recognized as part of Ukraine, but currently controlled by Russia) · former name of Cabala (= Kavala): a port city in northern Greece
eş: Neapolis Scythica
köken: From Ancient Greek Νεάπολις (Neápolis), from νέα (néa, “new”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”). Varro's De Lingua Latina states that it was previously called Novapolis. Equivalent to neo- + -polis.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Neapolis.
köken: The second element is from a Tai language. Compare Thai ทู (tuu). Curiously, the Pacific saury, also known as the mackerel pike, is called cá thu đao in Vietnamese, corresponding to 秋刀魚 /秋刀鱼 (qiūdāoyú) (SV: thu đao ngư) in Chinese. The thu elements in cá thu ("mackerel") and cá thu đao ("mackerel pike") are therefore seemingly unrelated, with the former being a Tai loan, while the latter is the…