minnow

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɪnəʊ/
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• General-American: /ˈmɪnoʊ/
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• homophone: mino (etymology 1)
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• rhymes with -ɪnəʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH1 N OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The noun is derived from Late Middle English menew, menowe (“small fish; (specifically) common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus); or stickleback (possibly the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus)”), from Old English *mynwe, an oblique form of *mynu, a variant of myne (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *muniwu (“minnow; small fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“small”). Possibly influenced by Anglo-Norman menu (“small”) and Old French menu (“small”), and English minim (“anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like”). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun. Cognates * Middle Low German mone, möne (Dutch meun, West Frisian meun) * Old High German muniwa, munuwa, munewa (modern German Münne (“minnow”)) * Latin mēna (“small sea-fish”)

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: ondermaatse vis — any small fish
• Finnish: pikkukala — any small fish
• Finnish: sintti — any small fish
• French: fretin — any small fish
• Hungarian: halacska — any small fish
• Hungarian: kis hal — any small fish
• Macedonian: ри́пче (rípče) — any small fish
• Macedonian: си́тна ри́ба (sítna ríba) — any small fish
• Māori: pokotehe — any small fish
• Polish: płotka — any small fish
• Portuguese: peixinho — any small fish
• Russian: рыбка (rybka) — any small fish
• Scottish Gaelic: sgiolag — any small fish
• Spanish: pececillo — any small fish
• Thai: ซิว (siu) — any small fish
• Unami: namètët — any small fish
• Basque: ezkailu — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Bulgarian: лещанка (leštanka) — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Catalan: barb roig — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Cherokee: ᎠᏨᏗᏯ (atsvdiya) — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Czech: střevle — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Dutch: elrits — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Finnish: mutu — Phoxinus phoxinus
• French: vairon — Phoxinus phoxinus
• German: Bitterfisch — Phoxinus phoxinus
• German: Elritze — Phoxinus phoxinus
• German: Maipiere — Phoxinus phoxinus
• German: Pfrille — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Ancient Greek: φοξῖνος (phoxînos) — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Hungarian: cselle — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Hungarian: fürge cselle — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Irish: bodairlín — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Irish: pincín — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Italian: sanguinerola — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Latin: phoxinus — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Macedonian: пи́јор (píjor) — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Manx: mynnag — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Middle English: menowe — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Mi'kmaq: so'qomu'j — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Norwegian Bokmål: ørekyte — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Polish: płotka — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Portuguese: vairão — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Romanian: boiștean — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Russian: голья́н (golʹján) — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Scots: baanie — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Scots: bandy — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Scottish Gaelic: doirbeag — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Spanish: carpa — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Spanish: carpita — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Swedish: elritsa — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Swedish: kvidd — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Thai: ซิว (siu) — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Turkish: golyan — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Welsh: brithyll y dom — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Welsh: crothell y dom — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Welsh: pilcodyn — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Welsh: sildyn — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Welsh: sili-don — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Welsh: sil y dom — Phoxinus phoxinus
• Finnish: karppi — any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families
• Finnish: pikkutekijä — person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value
• Macedonian: си́тна ри́ба (sítna ríba) — person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value
• Portuguese: peixe pequeno — person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value
• Finnish: vaappu — artificial bait in the form of a small fish
• Finnish: kalastaa pikkukaloja — to fish for minnows
• Finnish: kalastaa sinttejä — to fish for minnows
• Finnish: kalastaa vaapulla — to fish using minnows as bait
• French: vaironner — to fish using minnows as bait