Etymology

sablefish

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Today it means: A dark-coloured marine fish of species Anoplopoma fimbria, of North American Pacific waters. Full definition →

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

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

From sable + fish.

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