The story
- Japanese · borrowed from鮎“sweetfish”
- English todayayu
From Japanese 鮎 (ayu, “sweetfish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ayu
Today it means: A sweetfish, an amphidromous game fish of East Asia of species Plecoglossus altivelis, prized for its sweet-tasting flesh and subject to extensive aquaculture. Full definition →
Japanese 鮎