gwyniad
(ˈgwɪnɪæd)
Forms: 7 guinead, 7–9 guiniad, (8 guinniad, 9 gwynniad), 8–9 gwiniad, 9 gwinead, 8– gywniad.
[a. Welsh gwyniad, f. gwyn white.]
A fish of the salmon or trout kind (Coregonus Pennantii) with white flesh, found in lakes, esp. in Bala lake on the Dee.
| 1611 Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614) 117/2 The fish called guinead bred in that meare [Bala lake] never is seene in the river Dee. 1769 De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) II. 381 A Fish..called Gwiniad or fresh-water Whiting. 1807 Sir R. C. Hoare Tour Irel. 224 The pollen..is the same as..the gwyniad of Bala lake in north Wales. 1861 Act 24 & 25 Vict. c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon, whether known by the names..white trout, sewin, buntling, guiniad,..or by any other local name. 1884 G. F. Braithwaite Salmonidæ Westmorld. ii. 5 The gwyniad or fresh water herring. |
| attrib. 1883 Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 365 Gwyniad Seine..Gwyniad Net. |