Etymology

caveach

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Today it means: A fillet of fish, typically mackerel, pickled in vinegar. Full definition →

Spanish escabeche
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The story

  1. Spanish · borrowed fromescabeche“pickled fish”
  2. English todaycaveach

Borrowed from Spanish escabeche (“pickled fish”), whence also the unadapted borrowing escabeche (see there for more); also a doublet of sikbaj.

Words from the same roots

Spanishescabeche all →

escabeche

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