crevette

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A shrimp.

Etymology
, attested in 1532, from earlier,. These are diminutives of, but may be influenced by a word going back to , from , possibly via , from. Compare also, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

The word crevette was associated with phonetically similar 🇨🇬, which led to the French equivalent being occasionally used in the sense of “shrimp”. This is, in all likelihood, a secondary confusion rather than the actual origin of crevette, as supposed in some of the literature.

Noun

 * 1) shrimp