Noun: shad
| Singular | shad |
| Plural | shad; shads |
Sample Sentences
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Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts. [2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 1, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale:]
Nouns inflected like shad
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English shadde, from Old English sċeadd, of uncertain origin. Compare Low German Schade (“shad, herring”), Scottish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan. Possibly from Scandinavian/North Germanic (compare dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”), Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”)), but the order of borrowing is unclear and the ultimate origin of these words is obscure. See: Middle English Nouns '
shadde', Old Norse Nouns '
skata'.
Verbs referencing "shad"
Icelandic Nouns
skata, Irish Nouns
sead, Irish Nouns
scadán.