English

fishgarth

Fishgarth comes from Middle English fysshegarth.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of fish + garth

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 *gʰerdʰ- ‘enclosure, fence, belt’

Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos ‘hedge, fence’

Proto-Germanic *gardaz ‘enclosure’

Old Norse garðr ‘an enclosed space, yard’

Middle English garth ‘a garth’

English garth

Every English word from Middle English fysshegarth

noun A fishweir.

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