greeleen

From Middle English grelyng, equivalent to gry +‎ -leen (“diminutives suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾiːˈliːn/

greeleen

1. young cod-fish, grayling

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 43