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"Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BCE referred to these fish as the “Thunderer of the Nile”’

-wikipedia electricity

Electricity was discovered by the first guy looking at a thunderstorm, so they were called “thunder fish”.

The word “electricity” was invented to describe the property of attracting straws after rubbing some wool on an “electron”, which was associated with “sunbeam” and was the Greek word for amber (which in turn got its name after people conflated the ambergris or “gray amber” derived from sperm whales, with the fossilized tree resin or “yellow amber”… and the whales got their name from whale oil or “spermaceti”… which yes, people thought was whale semen that just happened to burn great in candles).

PS: blow the candle and sweet dreams… 🌬️🕯️

zappy slithers

Ouchie fishy

Actual serious answer: electric eels are exclusively South American, so the indigenous peoples there probably do have their own names for them which would likely pre-date the discovery of electricity.

(Electric fish known to other cultures would have been electric catfish, not electric eels.)