karpho

Old High German

Alternative forms

• carfo, carpe, carpfo, carph, carphe, carpho, carpo, charpfo, charphe, charpho, charpo, cherpho, chærf, karpha

Etymology

From a Germanic source allied with Dutch karper, Old Norse karfe, karfi, Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍀𐌰 (*karpa). Outside of Germanic, compared with Sanskrit शफर (śaphara), Welsh carp, Lithuanian šapalas. However, the un-shifted Germanic k suggests that the word entered Indo-European languages through Germanic and is ultimately from a non-Indo-European substrate native to the Alpine region and Danube basin.

Noun

karpho m

1. carp

Descendants

• German: Karpfen