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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz.

Noun

*fisk m

1. fish

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*fisk
Genitive	*fiskas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fisk	*fiskō, *fiskōs
Accusative	*fisk	*fiskā
Genitive	*fiskas	*fiskō
Dative	*fiskē	*fiskum
Instrumental	*fisku	*fiskum

Derived terms

• *fiskārī
• *fiskōn

Descendants

• 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)