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haye

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Noun — A shark, a fish whose skeleton is made of cartilage.

Etymology

Comes from Dutch haai ("shark") or West Flemish haaie (formerly haeye), from the Old Norse hái, a short form of hákarl ("shark") (a compound of há- ("marks fish of the shark kind") and karl ("a man")). The German Hai, the Swedish haj and the Danish haj come from the same source.

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