English

finger fish

From finger + fish.

A compound of finger + fish

Proto-Germanic *fingraz ‘finger’

Proto-West Germanic *fingr

Old English finger

Middle English fynger ‘a finger’

Proto-Indo-European *piskós

Proto-Germanic *fiskaz

Proto-West Germanic *fisk

Old English fisċ

Middle English fisch ‘an animal that inhabits the water or the meat…’

English fish

Today it means

noun Any small fish approximately the size of a finger.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / finger fish