ide

Etymology

Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.

noun

  1. A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
    a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’ 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVII

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