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, *fiska
Genitive	*fiskas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fisk, *fiska	*fiskōs
Accusative	*fisk, *fiska	*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, fissk (Ormulum)
    • English: fish (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: fish, fysch, fisch
    • Yola: wish
• Old Frisian: fisk
  • North Frisian: fask (Föhr-Amrum), fesk (Heligoland), fasch (Mooring), Fesk (Sylt)
  • Saterland Frisian: Fisk
  • West Frisian: fisk
• Old Saxon: fisk, fisc, visk, visc
  • Middle Low German: visch, vis
    • Low German: Fisch
    • 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, fisch, visc, vesc
    • Bavarian: Fiisch
      • Cimbrian: viss, biss, visch
      • Mòcheno: visch
    • Central Franconian: Fesch
      • Hunsrik: Fisch
      • Luxembourgish: Fësch
      • Transylvanian Saxon: Fäsch
    • German: Fisch
    • Rhine Franconian:
      • Palatine German: Fusch, Fisch
      • Pennsylvania German: Fisch
    • Vilamovian: fejś
    • Yiddish: פֿיש (fish)