| Remarks |
'catfish', i.e., applied to fish with barbels on the mouth like whiskers of a cat; 'cat', from Latin 'catta, cattus' in 1000 AD and likely to have been of Egyptian origin (p. 100, Ref. 11979); 'fish' from Germanic 'fiskaz' from same source as Latin 'piscis' from Indo-European word 'piskos' (p. 229 in Ref. 11979); 'clown', i.e., unsophisticated or boorish country fellow, maybe from Latin 'colonus', i.e., colonist, farmer or of Germanic origin from North Frisian and Icelandic 'klonne, klunni', i.e., clumsy person (p. 119, Ref. 11979); 'black', from Old English 'blæc', of obscure origins but probably related to Latin 'flagrare' and Greek 'phlégein', i.e., burn, from Indo-European 'phleg-, bhleg-' (p. 65 in Ref. 11979). |