English

fishlife

From fish + life.

A compound of fish + life

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-Germanic *lībą ‘life’

Proto-West Germanic *līb ‘body’

Old English līf

Middle English lyf

English life

Today it means

noun The fish (e.g. of an area) collectively.

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

Etymograph / fishlife