ennet

Meaning

Noun

• Duck; drake.
• The common eider (Somateria mollissima).
• The kittiwake.

Origin

• From Middle English ende, enede, from Old English ened, æned, from Proto-West Germanic *anad ("duck"), from Proto-Germanic *anadz ("duck"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts ("duck").
• Cognate with Dutch eend ("duck"), German Ente ("duck"), Norwegian and Swedish and ("duck, mallard"), Icelandic önd ("duck"), Latin anas ("duck, drake"), Lithuanian antis ("duck, mallard"), Russian у́тка ("duck"), Sanskrit आति ("aquatic bird").