Etymology

alampy

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Today it means: abnormal bluish pigmentation in fish, caused by lack of guanine Full definition →

German Alampie ← Ancient Greek α-
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromα-“not”
  2. German · borrowed fromAlampie
  3. English todayalampy

From German Alampie, coined (as Alampia) by Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1863), from Ancient Greek α- (a-, “not”) + λάμπω (lámpō, “to shine”).

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