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zander - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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zander (plural zanders or zander)

• A European freshwater fish in the family Percidae, closely related to the perch, Sander lucioperca.
• Any fish of the genus Sander that live in freshwater.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zander, from a Slavic language, perhaps via Middle Low German sandāt.¹ Pfeifer states that the first German attestation is East Central German czandas (in the Marienburger Treßlerbuch²) circa 1400, which he derives from Pomeranian ﹡sądač (compare Slovincian sãdzoc), from Proto-Slavic ﹡sǫdakъ.³ Low Prussian forms include Zand, and other Slavic languages (e.g. Kashubian) have been considered as possible sources.² Doublet of sandre.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈzæn.də(ɹ)/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. “zander” in Duden online ↩

2. Trübners deutsches Wörterbuch (1957), W-Z, page 322 ↩ ↩²

3. Wolfgang Pfeifer (1995), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, 2 edition, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, →ISBN ↩

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