Common name | Black leopard wrasse |
Language | English |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
Country | Micronesia (Federal States of) |
Locality | |
Ref. | Lieske, E. and R. Myers, 1994 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | primary lexeme |
1st modifier | non-fish animal |
2nd modifier | color pattern(s) |
Remarks | '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). |