Etymograph

English

flagfish

From flag + fish.

A compound of flag + fish

Middle English flag

English flag

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

The story

The red, white and blue stripes and dots are reminiscent of the American flag.

Today it means

noun A freshwater fish in the family Cyprinodontidae native to Florida, Jordanella floridae, sometimes kept in aquaria and used in laboratory tests of the biological effects of environmental pollutants.

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

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