| Common name | Brown trout |
| Language | English |
| Type | Vernacular |
| Official trade name | No |
| Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
| Country | Nepal |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | Shrestha, J., 1994 |
| Life stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | primary lexeme |
| 1st modifier | color pattern(s) |
| 2nd modifier | |
| Remarks | 'Brown', i.e., dark, shining, glistening as in weapons in Old English, from West and North Germanic 'brunaz' from Indo-European 'bheros', i.e., brown animal (source of English 'bear') (p. 81 in Ref. 11979); 'trout' from Middle English from Old English 'truht' from Low Latin 'trocta, tructa', i.e., a fish with sharp teeth, from Greek 'troktes', i.e., gnawer, from 'trogein', i.e., to gnaw (p. 1266 in Ref. 11978). |