shad
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English shadde, from Old English sceadd, possibly from Celtic (compare Scottish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian/North Germanic (compare dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”), Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”)), but the order of borrowing is unclear and the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʃæd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æd
Noun
[edit]shad (plural shad or shads)
- Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
- 2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 1, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale:
- Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.
- (South Africa) Any bluefish of species Pomatomus saltatrix.
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from shad
- Agrakhan shad (Alosa sphaerocephala)
- Alabama shad (Alosa alabamae)
- allis shad (Alosa alosa)
- American shad (Alosa sapidissima)
- Astrabad shad (Alosa caspia persica)
- Azov shad (Alosa tanaica)
- Black Sea shad (Alosa maeotica)
- Caspian anadromous shad (Alosa kessleri)
- Caspian marine shad (Alosa braschnikowi)
- Caspian shad (Alosa caspia caspia)
- Enzeli shad (Alosa caspia knipowitschi)
- European shad (Alosa fallax)
- gizzard shad (Dorosoma spp. et al.)
- hickory shad (Alosa mediocris)
- Killarney shad (Alosa killarnensis)
- Kura shad (Alosa curensis)
- Laotian shad (Tenualosa thibaudeaui)
- Macedonia shad (Alosa macedonica)
- North African shad (Alosa algeriensis)
- Pontic shad (Alosa immaculata)
- Reeves' shad (Tenualosa reevesii)
- river shad (Alosa spp.)
- Saposhnikovi shad (Alosa saposchnikowii)
- shadbird
- shadbush, shad bush (Amelanchier spp.)
- shad frog (Rana halecina)
- shad-spirit
- shad-waiter (Prosopium cylindraceum)
- skipjack shad (Alosa chrysochloris)
- Toli shad (Tenualosa toli)
- Thracian shad (Alosa vistonica)
- twait shad, twaite shad (Alosa fallax)
- Volga shad (Alosa volgensis)
Translations
[edit]fishes of the herring family
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Further reading
[edit]- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “sgadan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
Anagrams
[edit]Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English shodde, past of shon (“to shoe”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]shad
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 66
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