Etymology

brisling

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Today it means: A sprat (small herring), especially Sprattus sprattus. Full definition →

Norwegian brisling ← Danish brisling ← Low German bretling
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The story

  1. Old Saxon · derived frombrēd
  2. Middle Low German · derived from*brêd
  3. Low German · derived frombretling
  4. Danish · derived frombrisling
  5. Norwegian · derived frombrisling
  6. English todaybrisling

From Norwegian brisling and Danish brisling, from Low German bretling, from bret (“broad”), from Middle Low German *brêd, from Old Saxon brēd.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.