fisk
English
Etymology 1
Compare Swedish fjäska (“to bustle about”).
Verb
fisk (third-person singular simple present fisks, present participle fisking, simple past and past participle fisked)
Etymology 2
Back-formation from fisking.
Verb
fisk (third-person singular simple present fisks, present participle fisking, simple past and past participle fisked)
- To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.
- 2008 March 13, “Fisked By Obama”, in The Economist:
- Now, apparently, Barack Obama's campaign is fisking Hillary Clinton's campaign memos.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fesk/, [fesɡ̊]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ- (“fish”).
Noun
fisk c (singular definite fisken, plural indefinite fisk)
- fish
- Pisces (someone with a Pisces star sign)
- (card games) Go Fish (a card game for children)
Inflection
Further reading
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Etymology 2
See fiske (“to fish”).
Elfdalian
Etymology
From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-. Cognate with Swedish fisk.
Faroese
Icelandic
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ- (“fish”).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-. Akin to English fish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪsk/
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, whence also Old English fisc, Old Norse fiskr, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks), from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-. Cognates include Latin piscis.
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, whence also Old English fisc, Old Dutch and Old High German fisk, Old Norse fiskr, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks), from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-.
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish fisker, from Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ- (“fish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪsk/
- Rhymes: -ɪsk
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Declension
Declension of fisk | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | fisk | fisken | fiskar | fiskarna |
Genitive | fisks | fiskens | fiskars | fiskarnas |
Derived terms
- fiska
- fiskare
- fiskben
- fiskbutik
- fiske
- fiskhuvud
- fiskmånglare
- fiskrens
- fiskrätt
- guldfisk
- valfisk
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪsk/
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɪsk/, /feɪsk/
- Rhymes: -ɪ́sk