From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56324
Date: 2008-03-30
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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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>I suppose :
>Flétan (kind of sole) means Flat(-fish) ?
The only online etymologies I can find (all for Spanish
<fletán>, a fish which in Spain came out of relative
anonymity after the "guerra del fletán" between Spain and
Canada) derive it from a Latin <fletis>, which I cannot find
in Lewis & Short.
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It's supposed to be from Dutch
Étymol. et Hist. 1554 flettan (Rondelet, Libri de Piscibus, Marinis p. 325).
Soit empr. à un néerl. *vleting, dér. de vlete (v. flet);
soit dér. de flet*; suff. -an* (d'apr. éperlan, merlan, etc.).
LW of *vleting with substitution of -an to -ing.
ARnaud
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