Common name | Éperlan à petite bouche |
Language | French |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 2 - (Preferred common name (unique)) |
Country | Canada |
Locality | |
Ref. | McAllister, D.E., V. Legendre and J.G. Hunter, 1987 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | primary lexeme |
1st modifier | morphology |
2nd modifier | |
Remarks | 'éperlan' from Middle Dutch 'spierlinc' (p.269, Ref. 9404); 'à petite bouche', i.e., small mouthed; 'petite', i.e., small, from Latin slang 'pittittus, pititus, pitt', i.e., infant language expressing smallness and from Italian 'piccolo' (p. 557 in Ref. 9404); 'bouche' from Latin 'bucca', i.e., cheek, jaw or mouth, (p. 99 in Ref. 9404). |