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ĕsox

ĕsox · m

a fish of the Rhine

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What it meant

1. ĕsox — Lewis & Short

ĕsox, ŏcis, m., = i)/soc,

I a fish of the Rhine, a kind of pike, Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 44 (dub. Jan. isox).

2. esox — Walde–Hofmann

esox (0?; hss. auch ;-, vgl. Ico Hes, Niedermann ZONF. 7, 4), -öcis m. „ein Rheinfisch, wrsch. Lachs“ (seit Plin., -eina f. Not. Tir.): gall, vgl. 1r. &o, Gen. iach, Nbf. £ mkymr. ehawc, akorn. ehoc, mbret, eheuc u. ehoc „Lachs“ (daraus auch bask. izokin ds.; urépr. Flexion *es-ök-s, Gen. *es-ok-os usw., dann Ausgleich, s. Pedersen I 252. II 100, Pokorny ZcPh. 10, 201 f., vgl. auch Ernault RC. 5, 274, Holder I 1470, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. esox, p. 453]

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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