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A number of different species, most belonging to the family Clupeidae, are commonly referred to as herrings.The origins of the term "herring" is somewhat unclear, though it may derive from the same source as the Old High German heri meaning a "host, multitude", in reference to the large schools they form.
Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) is a herring in the family Clupeidae. It is one of the most abundant fish species in the world. Atlantic herrings can be found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, congregating in large schools. They can grow up to 45 centimetres (18 in) in length and weigh up to 1.1 kilograms (2.4 lb).
The character's name is a loose Italian translation of "red herring" (aringa rosa; rosa actually meaning ' pink ', and very close to rossa, ' red '). [ 9 ] A red herring is found in the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet , where the murderer writes at the crime scene the word Rache ('revenge' in German), leading the police—and ...
This is a list of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common ...
This is a list of Portuguese words that come from Germanic languages.Many of these words entered the language during the late antiquity, either as words introduced into Vulgar Latin elsewhere, or as words brought along by the Suebi who settled in Gallaecia [1] (Northern Portugal and Galicia) in the 5th century, and also by the Visigoths [2] who annexed the Suebic Kingdom in 585.
e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...
An English-based creole language (often shortened to English creole) is a creole language for which English was the lexifier, meaning that at the time of its formation the vocabulary of English served as the basis for the majority of the creole's lexicon. [1] Most English creoles were formed in British colonies, following the great expansion of ...
v. t. e. Caribbean English (CE, [ note 3 ]CarE) is a set of dialects of the English language which are spoken in the Caribbean and most countries on the Caribbean coasts of Central America and South America. Caribbean English is influenced by, but is distinct to the English-based creole languages spoken in the region.