Etymology

zander

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Today it means: A European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca. Full definition →

German Zander ← Slavic ← Middle Low German sandāt
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The story

  1. Proto-Slavic · derived from*sǫdakъ
  2. East Central German · derived fromczandas
  3. Middle Low German · derived fromsandāt
  4. Slavic · derived from
  5. German · borrowed fromZander
  6. English todayzander

Borrowed from German Zander, from a Slavic language, perhaps via Middle Low German sandāt. Pfeifer states that the first German attestation is East Central German czandas (in the Marienburger Treßlerbuch) circa 1400, which he derives from Pomeranian *sądač (compare Slovincian sãdzoc), from Proto-Slavic *sǫdakъ. Low Prussian forms include Zand, and other Slavic languages (e.g. Kashubian) have been considered as possible sources. Doublet of sandre.

Words from the same roots

GermanZander all →

sandre

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