A small European freshwater fish (Leucaspius delineatus) of the carp family, valued for bait.
From Middle English blaye or bleye, of unknown ultimate origin, possibly Celtic or Germanic. The name has remained relatively unchanged since medieval English.
Blay is one of those fish names that fishermen knew intimately but most people have never heard of—it shows how specialized vocabulary survives in working communities across centuries.
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