Etymology

fishfly

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Today it means: A mayfly. Full definition →

English fly ← 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. Englishfly
  8. English todayfishfly

From fish + fly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.