haddock

EnglishEdit

 
drawing of a haddock
 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English haddok, from Anglo-Norman hadoc, from Old French hadot. Further origin uncertain, but hadot could have evolved from (h)adoux, (h)adoz, from adoub, from adouber, adober (to prepare), cognate with Italian addobbare (to souse fish or meat).[1]

The spelling is usually regarded as a diminutive in -ok (see -ock).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈhædək/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ædək

NounEdit

haddock (plural haddock or haddocks)

  1. A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.

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DescendantsEdit

  • Irish: cadóg
  • Japanese: ハドック (hadokku)
  • Portuguese: hadoque
  • Scottish Gaelic: adag
  • Welsh: hadog

TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Weekley, Ernest (2013): An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English haddock.

NounEdit

haddock m (plural haddocks)

  1. Alternative form of hadoque