Where does “fish” come from?

Fish comes from Old English fisc, from Proto-Germanic fiskōną, from Proto-Indo-European pisḱ-, cognate with Proto-Indo-European h₂ep- and Ancient Greek δῆμος.

fish (English): A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in...

Definitions

  1. A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in...

Ancestry of “fish”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishfischAn animal that inhabits the water or the meat of...
2Old Englishfisċfish
3Proto-West Germanicfiskfish
4Proto-Germanicfiskazfish
5Indo-European*peysk-—

Words derived from “fish”

Every word from Indo-European *peysk- →