Where does “kupusilli” come from?
kupusilli (Finnish) comes from Finnish silli, from Swedish sill, from Old Norse síld, from Proto-Germanic sīlą — a kind of fish; a launce, sand eel; a herring.
kupusilli (Finnish): American gizzard shad, mud shad, Dorosoma cepedianum fish of the herring family native to large swaths of fresh and brackish waters of the United States of America
Definitions
- American gizzard shad, mud shad, Dorosoma cepedianum fish of the herring family native to large swaths of fresh and brackish waters of the United States of America
Ancestry of “kupusilli”, step by step
kupusilli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.