Etymograph

English

fishstock

fish + stock

A compound of fish + stock

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 *stukkaz ‘tree-trunk’

Proto-West Germanic *stokk

Old English stocc ‘log, trunk’

Middle English stok ‘tree trunk’

English stock

Today it means

noun The fish living in a particular body of water.

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

Etymograph / fishstock