Etymology

kingklip

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Today it means: A popular South African food fish; Genypterus capensis. Full definition →

Afrikaans kingklip ← Dutch koningklipvisch
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived fromkoningklipvisch
  2. Afrikaans · borrowed fromkingklip“king rock fish”
  3. English todaykingklip

From Afrikaans kingklip (“king rock fish”), from Dutch koningklipvisch.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.