Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To fish for eels. · To move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
Any freshwater fish of the order Anguilliformes, which are elongated and resemble snakes. · A European eel (Anguilla anguilla). · An electric eel (any knifefish of the genus Electrophorus) · A swamp eel (any fish in the family Synbranchidae).
From Middle English el (“eel”), from Old English ǣl (“eel”), from Proto-West Germanic *āl (“eel”), from Proto-Germanic *ēlaz (“eel”), which is of unknown origin. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian iel (“eel”), Dutch aal (“eel”), German Low German Aal, Ool (“eel”), German Aal (“eel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ål (“eel”), Faroese állur, álur (“eel”), Icelandic áll (“eel”).
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