| Common name | Pursy minnow |
| Language | English |
| Type | Vernacular |
| Official trade name | No |
| Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
| Country | Netherlands Antilles |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | Zaneveld, J.S., 1983 |
| Life stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | primary lexeme |
| 1st modifier | morphology |
| 2nd modifier | |
| Remarks | 'minnow', Middle English 'menawe'; akin to Old English 'myne', i.e., 'minnow', Old High German 'munewa', i.e., a kind of fish (Ref. 27888); 'pursy', Middle English, from Anglo-French 'pursif', alteration of Middle French 'polsif', from 'poulser', 'polser', i.e., 'to beat', 'push', 'pant', short-winded especially because of corpulence (Ref. 27888). |