Etymograph

English

marblefish

From marble + fish.

A compound of marble + fish

Ancient Greek μάρμαρος ‘anything made of marble’

Latin marmor ‘a block or piece of marble’

Old French marbre ‘marble (stone)’

Middle English marble

English marble

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 Aplodactylidae of perciform fishes.

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

Etymograph / marblefish