Where does “fisċ” come from?

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

fisċ (Old English): fish

Definitions

  1. fish

Ancestry of “fisċ”, step by step

fisċ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic fisk

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

via Proto-Germanic *skaljafiskaz

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*skaljafiskaz—

via Proto-Germanic *fiskakunją

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*fiskakunją—

Words derived from “fisċ”

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