WotD: (common) ling

1. der Leng(fisch)
2. de leng
3. la maruca
4. la llengua de bacallà
5. la lingue (blanche)
6. an langa
7. y honos
8. molwa (pospolita)
10. 魣鱈 xùxuě

Notes: This is a word which brought me up short in O'Flaherty today. Generally, context or, in a pinch, my Dictionary of Hiberno-English suffices, but all I could tell from the sentence was that it was some sort of foodstuff and Dolan had nothing. It was the Old Man who put me on the right track by saying, "Isn't it a kind of cod?" It isn't but it's a fish (or rather a genus of them) of the same order which is apparently similar enough to be a common substitute. According to Wikipedia, in fact, it's the preferred species for lutefisk. Since it's a North Atlantic food fish, it's surprising enough that there's a Chinese name for it. (My sources are insufficient to determine what they'd be labeled in Japan or Korea.)