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smokkfiskur

smokkursheath, tube
fiskurfish
sheath fish

which everyone uses to mean squid

Smokkur has since picked up a second, more modern meaning, which is why Icelanders still smirk at this one.

animals

Literal glosses are a translator’s liberty, not a rule. This compound may have frozen centuries ago, with its pieces drifting since. If it is wrong, a correction from an Icelandic speaker is the whole point.

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