An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Blackfisch

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blach

An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

Blackfisch

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2564174An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B — BlackfischJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

Blackfisch, masculine, ‘cuttlefish,’ from Low German blackfisk. Blak is the Low German term for ink (blakhorn, ‘inkstand’); compare Anglo-Saxon blœc, ‘ink,’ English black (a colour and shoemaker's black), Old High German blach.