sceadd
Old English
Etymology
When comparing Old Norse skaddr and dialectal Norwegian skadd (“a small whitefish”), unless the languages all borrowed from each other, the [d] that occurs in all three is best explained as a borrowing from some European substrate language.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃæ͜ɑdd/, [ʃæ͜ɑd]
Noun
sċeadd m
- shad (kind of fish)
Descendants
- English: shad
References
- Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sceadd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and Linguistics. (2023). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.