English
fishapod
A blend of fish + tetrapod, Coined by American paleontologist Neil Shubin circa 2006.
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
The story
A blend of fish + tetrapod, Coined by American paleontologist Neil Shubin circa 2006.
Today it means
noun Any of several extinct creatures of the subclass Tetrapodomorpha having features both of fish and tetrapods, especially Tiktaalik.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fishapod