fish

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An animal that lives in water and breathes through gills, usually with scales and fins.

   We saw lots of colorful fish swimming near the reef.

2. 2
   noun

   The flesh of fish eaten as food.

   We had fish and chips for dinner.

3. 3
   verb

   To catch or try to catch fish.

   My grandfather likes to fish in the river every summer.

4. 4
   verb

   To try to get something indirectly, often praise or information.

   She kept fishing for compliments about her new dress.

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Simplified etymology

Fish is an Old English word that originally referred broadly to any animal living exclusively in water, as distinct from birds of the air and beasts of the field.

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”). Cognates Cognate with Yola wish (“fish”), North Frisian fasch, fask, Fesk (“fish”), Saterland Frisian Fisk (“fish”), West Frisian fisk (“fish”), Cimbrian biss, visch, viss (“fish”), Dutch vis, visch (“fish”), Dutch Low Saxon, Mòcheno visch (“fish”), German Fisch (“fish”), German Low German Fösch (“fish”), Luxembourgish Fësch (“fish”), Yiddish פֿיש (fish, “fish”), Danish, Elfdalian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swe…

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