Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fisk

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz.

*fisk m

1. fish

• *fiskārī
• *fiskōn

• Old English: fisċ, fix, ᚠᛁᛋᚳ (fisc) — Runic
  • Middle English: fisch, fysshe, fysch, fish, fische, fis, fyshe, fissh, vish
    • English: fish (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: fish, fysch, fisch
    • Yola: wish
• Old Frisian: fisk
  • North Frisian:

    Mooring: fasch

    Fering-Öömrang: fask

    Söl'ring: fesk

    Halunder: fesk

  • Saterland Frisian: Fisk
  • West Frisian: fisk
• Old Saxon: fisk, fisc, visk, visc
  • Middle Low German: visch, vis
    • Dutch Low Saxon: visch
    • German Low German: Fisk, Fiss, Fisch, Fösch
    • Plautdietsch: Fesch
• Old Dutch: fisc, visc
  • Middle Dutch: visch, visc, vis, vesch, fisch, fisc
    • Dutch: vis, visch (before 1934)
      • Afrikaans: vis
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: fesi
      • Jersey Dutch: väśe
      • Negerhollands: visch, vesch, fes, fis, vis
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: fis (dated)
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: fesi, fisse, fiche
      • Petjo: fis
      • →? Aukan: fisi
    • Limburgish: visj, vèsj
    • West Flemish: vissch
• Old High German: fisk, fisc
  • Middle High German: visch
    • Bavarian: Fiisch

      Cimbrian: viss, biss, visch

      Mòcheno: visch

    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Fisch

      Kölsch: Fesch

    • German: Fisch
    • Luxembourgish: Fësch
    • Transylvanian Saxon: Fäsch
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Palatine German: Fusch, Fisch

    • Vilamovian: fejś
    • Yiddish: פֿיש (fish)