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| Poena | |
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| Stage | Modern CLT |
| Pronunciation | /ˈpɔɪ.na/ |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Etymology | from Middle poisōnē, from Proto poison; medial syllable lost |
| Related words | Naev, Krevra, Stormharbor |
Poena — fish; any of the swimming creatures taken for food.
Notes
The general word, covering everything from the small river Poena of Forgegate to the great open-water kinds the deep fleets chase. Salted, smoked, dried or fresh, it is the cheapest animal protein in any coastal city and the only reliable one in some. Stormharbor could not feed itself without it. The Iron Coves would not exist without it.
Most native fish carry a row of small bony plates along the lateral line, more pronounced in the deep-water kinds than in the river ones. It is one of the commonest sights on a fishmonger’s slab and nobody remarks on it.