Etymology

globefish

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Today it means: Any of many marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae, especially the puffer or sunfish, that can inflate itself to form a globe. Full definition →

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

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

From globe + fish.

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