• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t know what “squyrde” is, but it doesn’t show up in any etymological source I’ve ever seen.

    For example:

    squid (n.)

    “ten-armed marine mollusk, cuttlefish,” 1610s, a word of unknown origin. Klein’s sources suggest it is a sailors’ variant of squirt and so called for the “ink” it jets.

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/squid