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Swedish
Etymology
From späck (“blubber”) + hugga (“hew → chomp”) + -are (“-er”), "blubber hewer" → "blubber chomper".
Cognate to Danish spækhugger, Norwegian Bokmål spekkhogger, spekkhugger, Norwegian Nynorsk spekkhoggar, German Speckhauer (dated).
Noun
späckhuggare c
- killer whale (Orcinus orca)
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