A compound of sand + fish
Proto-Germanic *samdaz ‘sand’
Proto-West Germanic *samd
Old English sand
Middle English sand
English sand
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 member of the genus Gonorynchus (also called beaked sandfishes), long, thin ray-finned fishes (family Gonorychidae)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / sandfish
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