Dodi Schultz
January 3rd, 2006, 09:32 AM
>> I've just found something else in the Century Dictionary Online
>> <http://www.global-language.com/century/>, which isn't indexed by
>> Google. It has:
>>
>> gerling, n. [Perhaps a var. of yearling, with orig. g. ] A salmon
>> which has returned the second time from the sea. [Local, Eng.]
>>
>> I'm not convinced by that etymology, as a salmon - as I understand
>> it from other websites - would be about 6 years old the first time
>> it returned from the sea, but it is a possibility.
>>
>> -- Tim L
Thanks, Tim! Fascinating. I have the same skeptical reaction as you do. Now
we have to await comment from Paul the etymological whiz! Paul?
--Dodi
>> <http://www.global-language.com/century/>, which isn't indexed by
>> Google. It has:
>>
>> gerling, n. [Perhaps a var. of yearling, with orig. g. ] A salmon
>> which has returned the second time from the sea. [Local, Eng.]
>>
>> I'm not convinced by that etymology, as a salmon - as I understand
>> it from other websites - would be about 6 years old the first time
>> it returned from the sea, but it is a possibility.
>>
>> -- Tim L
Thanks, Tim! Fascinating. I have the same skeptical reaction as you do. Now
we have to await comment from Paul the etymological whiz! Paul?
--Dodi