| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun alewife.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (alewife) |
1. Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams.[Wordnet]. 2. Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus.[Wordnet]. 3. A woman who keeps an alehouse.[Websters]. 4. A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.[Websters]. | |
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Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. |
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Date "Alewives" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1784. (references) |
Topics by Level of Interest: ALEWIVES | ||||
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| Dead Alewives | 15 | Dead Alewives | 15 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Deutsch | Schnkwirtinnen (alewives). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, Alewives. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | Schnkwirtinnen (alewives). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, Alewives. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | Schnkwirtinnen (alewives). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, Alewives. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | Schnkwirtinnen (alewives). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, Alewives. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Japanese | 酒場のおかみ (alewife, Alewives). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Alewives. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
| Language | Translations for “Alewives” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Pig Latin | Alewivesway (Alewives). Additional references: Pig Latin, Alewives. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | Scirtinnen (alewives). Additional references: Terran B, Alewives. (volunteer) | |||
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| Language | Period | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | ||
| Latin | 500 BCE - 1700 | Pomolobus pseudoharengus (alewife, river herring, alewives), Clupea alosa (allis shad, alewife, alewives, allice, allice shad), Alosa vulgaris (alewife, alewives, allice, allice shad, allis), Alosa pseudoharengus (alewife, river herring, alewives), Alosa alosa (allis shad, alewife, alewives, allice, allice shad). Additional references: Latin, Alewives. (volunteer) | ||
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