English
queenfish
From queen + fish.
Proto-Indo-European *gʷénh₂s ‘woman’
Proto-Germanic *kwēniz ‘wife’
Proto-West Germanic *kwāni ‘woman’
Old English cwēn
Middle English quene ‘a queen’
English queen
Proto-Indo-European *piskós
Proto-Germanic *fiskaz
Proto-West Germanic *fisk
Old English fisċ
Middle English fisch ‘an animal that inhabits the water or the meat…’
English fish
Today it means
noun A queen croaker, of species Seriphus politus, of North America, with elongated body and large mouth.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “queenfish”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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