ide
A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
Noun
- A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
- a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’ - 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala,...
Origin
Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.