English

lookdown

From look + down.

A compound of look + down

Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn ‘to look’

Old English lōcian ‘to look’

Middle English loken ‘to look’

English look

Old English dūne ‘down’

Middle English doun

English down

Today it means

noun An oddly-shaped Atlantic marine fish, Selene vomer.

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

Etymograph / lookdown