/ˈsable/, [ˈs̺a.β̞lɪ]
Origin13th century. From older savel, from *sabŏlos, from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”). Cognate with Portuguese sável and Spanish sábalo.
- feminineallis shad (Alosa alosa)
“Outroſi nos dardes cadá ãno por kalendas mayaſ una duzea de bonoſ [s]auééſ τ outra duzea de lanpreas” — Also, you shall give to us yearly, by the calends of May, a dozen good shads and another dozen lampreys
“vos que ayades esa renda da dizima dos savees e do pescado que y sayr en vossa vida e despos vosa morte que fique a nos o dito arynno” — you should have this rent of a tenth of the shads and of the fish that is captured there, in your life, and after your death this sand island should return to us
Formssables(plural)