English
fisherfolk
From fisher (“person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport”) + folk; compare fisherman.
A compound of fisher ‘person who catches fish, especially for a…’ + folk
Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- ‘to paint, mark’
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Proto-Germanic *fiskaz ‘fish’
Proto-Germanic *fiskārijaz
Old English fisċere
Middle English fischer ‘a fisher’
English fisher
Proto-Germanic *fulką ‘troop, army’
Proto-West Germanic *folk ‘military, army, troop’
Old English folc ‘the people, especially the common people’
Middle English folk ‘people, folk’
English folk
The story
From fisher (‘person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport’) + folk; compare fisherman.
Today it means
noun People who fish for a living.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fisherfolk