Meaning: fish

Represented in 149 languages with 14 cognate sets.

Illustrative Context

I can see a fish swimming in the water.

Target Sense
  • The most generic noun for a live fish.
  • Avoid terms specific to caught, cooked or prepared fish, e.g. in Spanish the lexeme in the IE-CoR sense is pez, not pescado (literally ‘fished’).
  • Select the most generic term: avoid terms specific to either fresh or saltwater fish, for example.
  • Follow common usage in the language, not strict biological classifications of what are or are not ‘fish’. Avoid technical terms.

Cognate sets for meaning: fish

Id <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. form&nbsp;</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. lang.&nbsp;</span> # clades # lexemes loan? pll loan? pll deriv.? ideoph.? loan src lang. src lex cogset. Details

Lexeme Details

Language Lexeme Phonetic Phonemic Cognate set loan? pll loan? Source lang