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Where does “fisheth” come from?

fisheth (English) comes from English fish, from Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ, from Proto-West Germanic fisk, from Proto-Germanic fiskaz, from Indo-European *peysk-.

fisheth (English): Third-person singular simple present indicative...

Definitions

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative...

Ancestry of “fisheth”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfishA cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in...
2Middle EnglishfischAn animal that inhabits the water or the meat of...
3Old Englishfisċfish
4Proto-West Germanicfiskfish
5Proto-Germanicfiskazfish
6Indo-European*peysk-—
Every word from Indo-European *peysk- →