The Etymology of Whales

When you open up Moby Dick, the first thing you see is etymology. And I want to read some of these in full because they're very peculiar. Why would Melville begin his book about a whale? By having us focus on these etymologies. We have Wale in a variety of languages. Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Icelandic, English, French, Spanish, Fiji, and Erromangoan. What's the meaning of it? Well, I mean, that's a, that's the question. It means, from the idea of rolling. The idea of rolling to roll. Doobius e