Abborre
Perca fluviatilis
#nm_0205📍 Sweden
- Language
- Swedish
- Transliteration
- Abborre
- IPA
- /ˈabɔrːɛ/
From Old Swedish aborre (perch, attested 1506), older aghborre ↳ Compound: agh- (sharp) + borre (bristle) ↳ agh- from PIE *ak- (sharp; cf. agn, ax, egg) ↳ borre from Germanic *burzan (bristle; cf. borste) Named for the spiny dorsal fin. Old Danish agborre, Danish aborre, Norwegian abbor and Icelandic aborri are cognates, not ancestors; the word has no Old Norse attestation.
European perch, Finland's national fish