lamprey

English

Wikipedia

A lamprey

Etymology

From Middle English laumprei, adopted from Old French lampreie (Modern lamproie), from Medieval Latin lampreda, possibly from Late Latin lampetra, from a combination of lambō (“lick”) + petra (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlæm.pɹi/
• Hyphenation: lam‧prey

Noun

lamprey (plural lampreys)

1. Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the Petromyzontidae family, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.

Derived terms

• brook lamprey
• European river lamprey
• sea lamprey

Translations

a fish

• Catalan: llampresa (ca) f
• Czech: mihule (cs) f
• Dutch: prik (nl), lamprei (nl), negenoog (nl)
• Esperanto: petromizo (eo)
• Estonian: silmlane (et)
• Finnish: nahkiainen (fi)
• French: lamproie (fr) f
• German: Neunauge (de) n
• Ido: lampredo (io)
• Italian: lampreda (it)

• Japanese: ヤツメウナギ (ja) (yatsumeunagi)
• Latvian: nēģis (lv)
• Lithuanian: nėgė (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Nénga (lb) n, Lamprouer (lb) f
• Norwegian: niøye (no) n, lamprett (no)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: niauge (nn)
• Russian: минога (ru) (minóga) f
• Serbo-Croatian: zmijuljica (sh) f
• Spanish: lamprea (es)
• Swedish: nejonöga (sv) n

References

• lamprey in Oxford English Dictionary, volume VI, 1908
• lamprey in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913