different between eel vs salmon

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English ele, from Old English ?l (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *?l, from Proto-Germanic *?laz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?l, IPA^(key): /i?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Homophone: 'e'll

Noun

eel (plural eels)

1. Any freshwater or marine fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes.
2. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• elver

Verb

eel (third-person singular simple present eels, present participle eeling, simple past and past participle eeled)

1. To fish for eels.
2. To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.

Anagrams

• ELE, Lee, l'ee, lee

Estonian

Noun

eel

1. adessive singular of esi

Ingrian

Etymology

From ezi- (“pre-”). Akin to Finnish edellä.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?l/

Postposition

eel (+ genitive)

1. (of location) before, in front of

See also

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 38
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[1], page 95

Middle English

Noun

eel

1. Alternative form of ele

Mopan Maya

Verb

eel

1. to know, to have knowledge of

References

• Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse elda.

Verb

eel

1. To make fire, to keep a fire for warmth.

   hån ele för nåtta

   He made fire for the night.

Conjugation

Etymology 2

Noun

eel m pl

1. nominative & accusative indefinite plural of el

English

Etymology

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salm?, salm?n-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax. The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt, island for the same spelling Latinizations).

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?'m?n, IPA^(key): /?sæm?n/
• Rhymes: -æm?n
• (Southern American English, sometimes) IPA^(key): /?sælm?n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?m?n/

Noun

salmon (plural salmon)

1. One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

   Synonym: lax

2. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

   Synonym: salmon pink

3. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
4. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
   • 1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)

     Got any salmon?

Derived terms

Related terms

• samlet

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ???????? (hcaila.mwan)
• ? Hebrew: ????????? (sálmon)
• ? Hindi: ???? (s?man)

Translations

Adjective

salmon (not comparable)

1. Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 155:

     Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

Translations

Verb

salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)

1. (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
   • 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR

     Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Anagrams

• Almons, Lamson, Lomans, Malson, Sloman, monals

Cebuano

Etymology

From English salmon, from Middle English samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salm?, salm?n-.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sal?mon

Noun

salmon

1. a salmon; any of several fish in the subfamily Salmoninae

Esperanto

Noun

salmon

1. accusative singular of salmo

Friulian

Noun

salmon m (plural salmons)

1. salmon

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese salmão.

Noun

salmon

1. rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN

Middle English

Noun

salmon

1. Alternative form of samoun

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal?mu?/

Noun

salmon m

1. salmon