elritsa

== Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Elritze. From a word cognate with German Erle (“alder”). The reason for the name is that the fish likes to stay between the roots of the alders. === Noun === elritsa c common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus Synonym: kvidd ==== Declension ==== === References === “elritsa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “elritsa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “elritsa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) elritsa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)