English

jackfish

From jack + fish.

A compound of jack + fish

Middle Dutch Jan ‘John’

Middle Dutch Janke

Anglo-Norman Jakke

Middle English Jakke

English Jack

English jack

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 A jack (in any of the senses referring to types of fish).

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

Etymograph / jackfish