Where does “fisc” come from?

fisc (Old Dutch) comes from Proto-West Germanic fisk, from Proto-Germanic fiskaz, from Indo-European *peysk-.

fisc (Old Dutch): fish

Definitions

  1. fish

Ancestry of “fisc”, step by step

fisc traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic fisk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicfiskfish
2Proto-Germanicfiskazfish
3Indo-European*peysk-—

via Frankish *fisk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frankish*fisk—

Words derived from “fisc”

Every word from Indo-European *peysk- →Every word from Proto-Germanic fiskaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic fisk →