Bream
/briːm/noun
A freshwater or marine fish of the carp family, especially one with a deep, laterally compressed body.
Did you know?Bream is an old Germanic fish-name, and its deep history shows how common animals kept their names for centuries while empires rose and fell around them.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*braemaz
“a bream-like fish”
Old English
OE
brēam
“bream, a fish”
Middle English
ME
breme
“bream, a fish”
Modern English
English
bream
“a fish of the carp family”