English

footballfish

From football + fish, from its shape.

A compound of football + fish

Middle English fotbal

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

Today it means

noun Any of the species of deep-sea anglerfishes in the family Himantolophidae.

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

Etymograph / footballfish