walfisk
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West Frisian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]wal (“whale”) + fisk (“fish”), from Old Frisian *hwal (only attested in the compound), from Proto-West Germanic *hwal. See also German Walfisch.
Noun
[edit]walfisk c (plural walfisken, diminutive walfiskje)
Further reading
[edit]- “walfisk”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Categories:
- West Frisian compound terms
- West Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian
- West Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian
- West Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- West Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- West Frisian lemmas
- West Frisian nouns
- West Frisian common-gender nouns
- fy:Cetaceans