Common name | Brown trout |
Language | English |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
Country | Nepal |
Locality | |
Ref. | Shrestha, J., 1994 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | primary lexeme |
1st modifier | color pattern(s) |
2nd modifier | |
Remarks | 'Brown', i.e., dark, shining, glistening as in weapons in Old English, from West and North Germanic 'brunaz' from Indo-European 'bheros', i.e., brown animal (source of English 'bear') (p. 81 in Ref. 11979); 'trout' from Middle English from Old English 'truht' from Low Latin 'trocta, tructa', i.e., a fish with sharp teeth, from Greek 'troktes', i.e., gnawer, from 'trogein', i.e., to gnaw (p. 1266 in Ref. 11978). |