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- noun
Duck ;drake . - noun Scotland The
common eider (Somateria mollissima). - noun The
kittiwake .
Etymologies
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From Middle English enede, from Old English ened, æned ("drake, duck"), from Proto-Germanic *anudz (“duck”), from Proto-Indo-European *anǝt-, *nāt- (“duck”). Cognate with Dutch eend ("duck"), German Ente ("duck"), Swedish and ("duck, mallard"), Icelandic önd ("duck"), Latin anas ("duck, drake"), Lithuanian antis ("duck, mallard"), Russian утка (útka, "duck").
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