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0 pointsmellavora5y ago0 comments

And interestingly enough, the Swedish word for the fish which is called "pike" in English is "gär".

Lots of Nordic words in old English.

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kjs35y ago

Also interesting is we (US, at least) have a fish called a 'gar' that looks similar to a pike, but isn't technically. Pike are family Esocidae and gar are family Lepisosteidae.

bivargen5y ago

No, it’s not, the fish is called ”gädda”. The swedish cognate to gar would be ger, which has the same meaning of acute angle/point.

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