(s)kʷalo-s

    (s)kʷalo-s

    English meaning: a large fish

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “eine größere Fischart”

    Note: or vielmehr kʷalo-s ?

    Material: Lat. squalus “ein größerer Meerfisch”; das s- could but previously secondary from squatus ds., squüma “ scale, husk “ bezogen sein; O.Ice. hvalr m. (besides -hveli n.) “whale” (i-stem), O.E. hwæl, Eng. whale, O.S. O.H.G. hwal ds., besides O.H.G. hwelira (Gmc. *hvali-s-ōn-), Ger. Waller, Weller and M.H.G. “Wels” (Gmc. *hvali-s), wherefore also O.Pruss. kalis “Wels”; the mythische fish Av. kora- is die Iran. Wiedergabe eines urmordwin. *kola “fish”, later kal, to tscherem. kol, lapp. guole, finn. kala etc.; die ganze family also probably finno-uGk. origin.

    References: WP. II 541, WH. II 581 f., Hoops, Eng. Stud. 28, 1 ff., Jacobsohn, Arier and Ugrofinnen 241 f.