Where does “stockfish” come from?

stockfish (English) comes from Afrikaans stokvis, from Dutch stokvis, from Middle Dutch stocvisch.

stockfish (English): A cod having been cut open and cured in the open...

Definitions

  1. A cod having been cut open and cured in the open...

Ancestry of “stockfish”, step by step

stockfish traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Afrikaans stokvis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Afrikaansstokvis—
2Dutchstokvisstockfish
3Middle Dutchstocvisch—

via Middle English stokfissh

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishstokfissh—
2Germanstokvisch—

Words derived from “stockfish”

Every word from Middle Dutch stocvisch →Every word from Dutch stokvis →Every word from Afrikaans stokvis →