English

scabbardfish

From scabbard + fish.

A compound of scabbard + fish

Anglo-Norman eschaubert

Middle English scabard

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 a group of trichiurid fish.

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

Etymograph / scabbardfish