haringus

Latin

Alternative forms

harengus (late 11th c. onward)

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *hāring. Attested from the sixth century.[1]

Noun

haringus m (genitive haringī); second declension (Late Latin)

herring

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	haringus	haringī
Genitive	haringī	haringōrum
Dative	haringō	haringīs
Accusative	haringum	haringōs
Ablative	haringō	haringīs
Vocative	haringe	haringī

Descendants

Old Catalan: harench
- Catalan: areng
Old French: harang, hareng, heryng, haranc
- Middle French: hareng, harenc
  - French: hareng
- Norman: ĥéren
- Picard: héring
- Walloon: haring
- → Middle English: herring (partially)
  - English: herring
Old Occitan: harenc, arenc
- Occitan: arenc
- → Italian: aringa
  - → Armenian: առինկ (aṙink)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: رینغه
    - Turkish: ringa
    - → Arabic: رِنْكة (rinka)
    - → Armenian: ռինկա (ṙinka)
- → Old Spanish: arenque
  - Spanish: arenque
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
    - Galician: arenque
    - Portuguese: arenque

References

Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “harengus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 480

Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “arenque”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 322

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