haddock

English

drawing of a haddock

Etymology

From Middle English haddok. Compare Anglo-Norman hadoc from Old French hadot, probably from an English source.[1][2] 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”).[3]

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

haddock (plural haddock or haddocks)

  2. A saltwater fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.
    Hypernyms: gadid < gadiform < fish < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature
    Coordinate terms: (other commercially important gadiforms) cod (Gadus sense), cod (Gadus morhue sense), hake, pollock, whiting, ling, cusk

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Translations

References

  1. ^ https://www.etymonline.com/word/haddock
  2. ^ https://www.oed.com/dictionary/haddock_n?tab=etymology#2167075
  3. ^ Weekley, Ernest (2013): An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

Portuguese

Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English haddock.

    Noun

    haddock m (plural haddocks)

    1. alternative form of hadoque

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