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plural ides
A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus. quotations examples
a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’
1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVII