Fish

What “Fish” means

Noun

1. A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
2. Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
3. Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
4. Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.
5. Cod; codfish.

Noun

1. A period of time spent fishing.
2. An instance of seeking something.

Verb

1. To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
2. To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
3. To use as bait when fishing.
4. To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
5. To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.

Noun

1. A counter, used in various games.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *piskós (“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 (“fish”), Dutch Low Saxon and 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 Swedish fisk (“fish”), Faroese and Icelandic fiskur (“fish”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks, “fish”), Crimean Gothic fisct (“fish”). Compare Irish iasc (“fish”), Latin piscis (“fish”).

Deverbal from to fish (etymology 3).

From Old English fiscian, from Proto-West Germanic *fiskōn, from Proto-Germanic *fiskōną. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian fiskje (“to fish”), Dutch vissen (“to fish”), German fischen (“to fish”), Limburgish vésche, vèsse (“to fish”), Luxembourgish fëschen (“to fish”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fiske (“to fish”), Faroese, Icelandic and Swedish fiska (“to fish”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍉𐌽 (fiskōn, “to fish”).

Borrowed from French fiche (“peg, mark”).

Business name ideas with “Fish”

Industries where “Fish” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Fish and Seafood Markets
• Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers