| Remarks |
'Brown', i.e., dark, from West and North Germanic 'brunaz' from Indo-European 'bheros', i.e., bear, the brown dark animal (p. 81 in Ref. 11979); 'shark', of obscure origins but appears to have been introduced by members of the Sir John Hawkins' expedition ( a ballad of 1569 recorded 'There is no proper name for [the fish] that I know, but that certain men of Captain Hawkins's doth call it a shark'), ressembles Austrian dialect 'schirk', i.e., sturgeon (p. 471 in Ref. 11979). Also Ref. 10161. |