köken: Inherited from Middle French pesche, from Old French pesche, from Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca), from Late Latin persica, from Latin persicum. Doublet of persique.
köken: From Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca), from Late Latin persica, from Latin persicum (“peach”, literally “fruit from Persia”). Compare French pêche.
köken: From the root س م ك (s m k), meaning “to be elevated or lofty”, “to be supported or held up”, “to sustain”; hence the meaning of “a source of sustenance”, “a mainstay or staple-food”. Cognate with Hebrew סָמַך (samak, “to lean, lay, rest, support”) attested in the Bible with the similar semantic sense “to sustain” or “to nourish”.
köken: Etymology tree the BMAC substratebor.? Proto-Indo-Iranian *mátsyas Proto-Iranian *mácyah Middle Persian [script needed] (mʾhyk' /māhīg/) Persian ماهی Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (mʾhyk' /māhīg/), from Proto-Iranian *mácyah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mátsyas, possibly borrowed from the BMAC substrate. Cognate with Younger Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬀 (masiia), Sanskrit मत्स्य (mátsya).
fish (aquatic animal) · fish (meat of the aforementioned aquatic animals) · fishing (as a personal activity, used with the verbs olla (“to be”) and mennä (“to go”), lähteä (“to leave”), and käydä (“to go and come back”))
çekim: çoğul kalat · tamlayan kalan
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kala (compare Estonian kala), from Proto-Uralic *kala (compare Northern Sami guolli, Erzya кал (kal), Eastern Mari кол (kol), Hungarian hal, Tundra Nenets халя (xalya)).
fish · Pisces (someone with a Pisces star sign) · Go Fish (a card game for children)
çekim: çoğul fiskene · tamlayan fisks
köken: From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”). Cognate with English fish and German Fisch. The Germanic word is related to Latin piscis, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”).