English
guitarfish
From guitar + fish, from its body shape.
Ancient Greek κιθάρα ‘cithara, lyre’
Aramaic קיתרא ‘any stringed musical instrument’
Arabic قِيثَارَة ‘guitar; lyre’
Old Spanish guitarra ‘guitar’
Spanish guitarra
English guitar
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 family Rhinobatidae of rays with elongated bodies, flattened heads and trunks, and small, ray-like wings.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / guitarfish