Etymology

fishable

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Today it means: Able to be fished legally Full definition →

English fish ← Middle English fisch ← Old English fisċ
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*péysks
  2. Proto-Germanic*fiskaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*fisk
  4. Old Englishfisċ
  5. Middle Englishfisch
  6. Englishfish
  7. English todayfishable

From fish + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.