Etymology

banstickle

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Today it means: three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Full definition →

Middle English banstikel ← Old English bān
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frombān“bone”
  2. Middle English · inherited frombanstikel
  3. English todaybanstickle

From Middle English banstikel from Old English bān (“bone”) + sticel (“prickle, sting”). See bone (noun) and stickleback.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishbān all →

bainbanecuttlebone

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.