menca

Etymology
From, from (> “to weaken, to make small, low-valued”); the full en remained in Kurzeme dialects (compare, from the same stem, , , where en > ī), from which it spread to other dialects. The semantic development suggests that this fish was seen as unimportant or low-valued. Cognates include 🇨🇬, dialectal ; the same stem is also found in 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cod, codfish sea fish, family