Etymology Explorer › Old Dutch

Where does “fiskar” come from?

fiskar (Old Dutch) comes from Proto-Germanic fiskārijaz, from Proto-Germanic fiskaz, from Indo-European *peysk-.

Ancestry of “fiskar”, step by step

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

Words derived from “fiskar”

  • vissersring
  • vissersschip
  • visser
  • vissersboot
  • vissersdorp
  • visserschip
  • vischer
  • visscher
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