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splake

noun
/spleɪk/UK

Etymology

Blend of speckled + lake.

  1. derived from *leyg-✻
  2. inherited from *laikaną✻
  3. inherited from lacan
  4. inherited from laken
  5. derived from *leyg-✻ — “to bounce, shake, tremble”
  6. inherited from *laikaz✻ — “game, dance, hymn, sport”
  7. inherited from *laik✻
  8. inherited from lāc — “play, sport, strife, battle, sacrifice, offering, gift, present, booty, message”
  9. inherited from lake
  10. compounded as splake — “speckled + lake”

Definitions

  1. A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for splake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA