| Remarks |
Currently used, replaced 'Brown shark' used in Ref. 10161. 'Brown', i.e., dark, from West and North Germanic 'brunaz' from Indo-European 'bheros', i.e., bear, the brown dark animal (p. 81 in Ref. 11979); 'cat', from Anglo-Norman 'cat' from Old French 'chat' from Germanic 'kattuz' from Latin 'catta, cattus' which replaced 'feles', i.e., wild cats, probably connected with the introduction of domesticated cats into Rome from Egypt (p. 100 in Ref. 11979); 'shark', of obscure origins but appears to have been introduced by members of the Sir John Hawkins' expedition ( a ballad of 1569 recorded 'There is no proper name for [the fish] that I know, but that certain men of Captain Hawkins's doth call it a shark'), ressembles Austrian dialect 'schirk', i.e., sturgeon (p. 471 in Ref. 11979). Also Ref. 4925. |