different between haddock vs merling

English

Etymology

From Middle English haddok, from Anglo-Norman hadoc, from Old French hadot. Further origin uncertain, but hadot could have evolved from (h)adoux, (h)adoz, from adoub, from adouber, adober (“to prepare”), cognate with Italian addobbare (“to souse fish or meat”).

The spelling is usually regarded as a diminutive in -ok (see -ock).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæd?k/
• Rhymes: -æd?k

Noun

haddock (plural haddock or haddocks)

1. A marine fish, Melanogrammus aeglefinus, of the North Atlantic, important as a food fish.

Related terms

• finnan haddie
• hake

References

Translations

Portuguese

Noun

haddock m (plural haddocks)

1. Alternative form of hadoque

English

Etymology

From French merlanke, from Latin merula.

Noun

merling (plural merlings)

1. The fish Merlangius merlangus, endemic to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, western Baltic Sea and Black Sea.
   • 1995, Maryanne Kowaleski, footnote, Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter, page 310,

     The types were cod, conger eel, common eel, dried fish (most probably cod and hake), hake, herring, lamprey, ling, mackerel, merling (whiting), mulwell, pike, pilchard, pollack, porpoise, ray, salmon, stockfish (probably cod), sturgeon, and whiting; they arrived fresh, dried, salted, or smoked.

Synonyms

• (Merlangius merlangus): whiting (UK)
  • (in countries outside the range of Merlangius merlangus): English whiting, European whiting

Anagrams

• gremlin, mingler