öring

From Old Swedish øridh, from Old Norse aurriði, from aurr (“sandbank”) (from Proto-Germanic *auraz) + a descendant of Proto-Norse [script needed] (*-ræið-, “travel”), a more broad form of rīþa (“ride”) (from Proto-Germanic *rīdaną). -ridh has transformed into the common suffix -ing in modern Swedish, a modern analysis of the etymology would thus be ör +‎ -ing. The reason for the name is that the trout, as any other salmonid, during the lek mating period seeks banks of sand and gravel where the stream is less strong to form a pit in which it can drill its head. Cognate with Icelandic urriði, Danish ørred, Norwegian Bokmål ørret, aure and Norwegian Nynorsk aure.

öring c

1. brown trout (fish)

• öring in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• öring in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)