English

lemonfish

From lemon + fish.

A compound of lemon + fish

Old French lymon ‘citrus’

Middle English lymon

English lemon

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 marine fish, the cobia.

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

Etymograph / lemonfish