• fysshe,fysch,fish,fische,fis,fyshe,fissh,vish

FromOld Englishfisċ; in turn fromProto-West Germanic*fisk, fromProto-Germanic*fiskaz.

The development of a suffixless plural is due to analogy with other nouns denoting animals such asschep andswyn.

• IPA^(key): /fiʃ/

fisch (pluralfisches orfisch)

1. An animal that inhabits the water or the meat of such; marine life; e.g. alligators, fish, beavers, etc.
2. Fish or their meat.

• fischer
• fisshen
• garfysche
• hound fysch

• English:fish (see there for further descendants)
• Scots:fish,fysch,fisch
• Yola:wish

• “fish,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

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• Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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• Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
• Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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• enm:Fish
• enm:Foods
• enm:Vertebrates
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