Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod. · Any vertebrate, including tetrapods. · Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. · Now used in combination: (e.g., starfish, cuttlefish, jellyfish, etc).
From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *piskós (“fish”). Cognates Cognate with Yola wish (“fish”), North Frisian fasch, fask, Fesk (“fish”), Saterland Frisian Fisk (“fish”), West Frisian fisk (“fish”), Cimbrian biss, visch, viss (“fish”), Dutch vis (“fish”), Dutch Low Saxon and Mòcheno visch (“fish”), German Fisch (“fish”), German Low German Fösch (“fish”), Luxembourgish Fësch (“fish”), Yiddish פֿיש (fish, “fish”), Danish, Elfdalian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fisk (“fish”), Faroese and Icelandic fiskur (“fish”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks, “fish”), Crimean Gothic fisct (“fish”). Compare Irish iasc (“fish”), Latin piscis (“fish”).
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- Inherited-form mentionfischenm
- Inherited-form mentionfisċang · fish
- Inherited-form mention*fiskgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*fiskazgem-pro · fish
- Inherited-form mention*péysksine-pro · fish
- Cognate mentionwishyol
- Cognate mentionfaschfrr
- Cognate mentionFiskstq
- Cognate mentionfiskfy
- Cognate mentionbisscim
- Cognate mentionvisnl
- Cognate mentionFischde
- Cognate mentionFëschlb
- Cognate mentionפֿישyi
- Cognate mention𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃got
- Cognate mentionfisctgme-cgo
- Cognate mentioniascga
- Cognate mentionpiscisla
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},
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"lang": "Zulu",
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"A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.",
"Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.",
"Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.",
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