English

pricklefish

From prickle + fish.

A compound of prickle + fish

Old English pricel

Middle English prykkyl

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 Stephanoberycidae of stephanoberyciform fishes.

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

Etymograph / pricklefish