Etymology

fishborne

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Today it means: Carried or transmitted by fish. 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 todayfishborne

From fish + -borne.

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