Etymology

wakasagi

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Today it means: Japanese smelt, Hypomesus nipponensis, a fish native to Japan and introduced in the United States Full definition →

Japanese ワカサギ
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed fromワカサギ
  2. English todaywakasagi

From Japanese ワカサギ.

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