English

fishworker

From fish + worker.

A compound of fish + worker

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

Middle English worchere ‘one who works’

Today it means

noun A laborer in the fishing industry.

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

Etymograph / fishworker