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Borrowed from Finnishnieriä into Russian during the colonization of the Kamchatka (end of 17th, beginning of 18th century) by Finnish-Russian bilinguals, + -ка(-ka) ending. The meaning of the Finnish word is fixed to “saibling” now but it did not need to be so at that time. Doublet of нериас(nerias), нериус(nerius), andне́ргас(nérgas), northwestern Russian dialectal forms borrowed from Kareliannieries.
Kendla, Mari (2014) “Über die Entstehung und Klassifizierung estnischer Fischbezeichnungen [On the Development and Categorization of Estonian Fish Names]”, in Linguistica Uralica (in German), volume 50, number 1, →DOI, pages 38–39
Plevačová, Hermína (1978) “K slovanským výpůjčkám narikla, nerita, nerka, nanara ap. [About the Slavic loans narikla, nerita, nerka, nanara and so on]”, in Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity. A, Řada jazykovědná (in Czech), volumes A25-26, pages 87–91
