alewife

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  A woman who keeps an alehouse.

Translations

 * French:
 * German:, Schankwirtin
 * Italian: proprietaria di una birreria
 * Spanish: tabernera, cervecera

Etymology 2
. Possibly from, the Narragansett name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, “Phil Trans.” No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam’s “Memoirs,” vol. ii. p. 131.

Possibly from, from , from , from , influenced by Etymology 1 due to large belly of the fish.

Noun

 * 1) A migrating North American fish,.
 * 2) * 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.
 * I saw in Cohasset, separated from the sea only by a narrow beach, a handsome but shallow lake of some four hundred acres, and, after the alewives had passed into it, it had stopped up its outlet, and now the alewives were dying by thousands, and the inhabitants were apprehending a pestilence as the water evaporated.
 * 1) Any of several species similar in appearance.
 * 1) Any of several species similar in appearance.

Synonyms

 * ,, , Canada

Translations

 * Catalan: gasparell
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 灰西鯡
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: riveraringo, falsa haringo
 * Finnish: harmaasilli,
 * French: ,
 * German: Großaugenhering
 * Japanese: エールワイフ
 * Polish: aloza tęczowa, aloza wielkooka
 * Russian: сероспинка, элевайф
 * Spanish: pinchagua
 * Swedish: gumsill
 * Ukrainian: сіроспинка