The story
- Old English · inherited fromedisc“an eddish or aftermath; pasture; enclosed pasture, park”
- Middle English · inherited fromeddish
- English todayeddish
Uncertain; but probably from Middle English eddish (found often in compounds: e.g. eddish-hen (“eddish-hen, quail”)), ultimately from Old English edisc (“an eddish or aftermath; pasture; enclosed pasture, park”), equivalent to ed- + -ish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.