English
fishkind
Fishkind comes from Middle English fisshe kynde.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fisshe kynde
- Englishearliest quotation 1919fishkind
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fisshe kynde
- Englishearliest quotation 1919fishkind
Earliest quotation: 1919, Norman Hinsdale Pitman: “A single flirt of the tail, no more vigorous…”
Formed from fish + -kind
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
Every English word from Middle English fisshe kynde
Today it means
noun All fishes, considered as a group.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English fisshe kynde / fishkind