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Originally meant "salted herring". Possibly borrowed from Swedishsillake, from sill(“herring”) + lake(“brine”) (compare saltlake), referring to the brine herrings were salted with. The word may have influenced by salakka, another word for a fish, in both form and meaning. Alternatively, according to Jakob (2023), the Finnic, Germanic and Baltic words may derive from a substrate.
^ Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), “silakka”, in Suomen sanojen alkuperä (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
^ Jakob, A. (2023) “Baltic → Finnic borrowings”, in A history of East Baltic through language contact, pages 166–169
Further reading
“silakka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
