English

snipefish

From snipe + fish.

A compound of snipe + fish

Old Norse snípa

Middle English snipe

English snipe

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 Either of the two species of fish of the genus Macroramphosus.

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

Etymograph / snipefish