English
fishball
From fish + ball.
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
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ‘to blow’
Proto-Germanic *balluz ‘round object’
Old English *beall
Middle English bal ‘a ball’
English ball
Today it means
noun A food item made from pulverized fish shaped into a ball, popular in Chinese and Scandinavian cuisine and elsewhere around the world.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fishball