different between hominy vs herring

English

Etymology

First recorded in 1629. From Powhatan ("Virginia Algonquian"), though the exact source word is in question: suggestions include uskatahomen, appuminnéonash (“parched corn”), and rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”), the last yielding also the unclipped rockahominy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?m?ni/
• Homophone: harmony (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)

Noun

hominy (usually uncountable, plural hominies)

1. A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.

   Synonym: nixtamal

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References

Further reading

• hominy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English hering, from Old English h?ring, from Proto-West Germanic *h?ring (“herring”), further etymology unknown. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *h?r? (“hair”) +? -ing, due to the similarity of their fine bones to hair. Cognate with Scots hering, haring (“herring”), Saterland Frisian Hiering, Häiring (“herring”), West Frisian hjerring (“herring”), Dutch haring (“herring”), German Low German Hereng, Hering (“herring”), German Hering (“herring”). French hareng, Norman ?éren, Latin haringus, etc. are borrowings from Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

herring (plural herrings or herring)

1. A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food.
2. Fish in the family Clupeidae.
3. Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

Derived terms

• Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
• Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras)
• English herring (Clupea harengus)
• herringbone
• longfin herring (Pristigasteridae)
• matjes herring
• Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)
• red herring
• round herring (Dussumieriidae)
• thread herring (Opisthonema)
• wolf herring (Chirocentridae)

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See also

• buckling
• kipper
• stockfish