Brill Academic Publishers, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 3(80), p. 270-272, 2020
DOI: 10.1163/18756719-12340188
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Abstract This short etymological note presents the North Germanic cognates of the ichthyonym houting ‘Coregonus oxyrinchus’, which in the Dutch etymological literature on the word have remained unnoticed. It is argued on the basis of Danish helt and related forms that the Proto-(Northwest-)Germanic reconstruction of this word can be set to *halti-.