Etymograph

English

sablefish

From sable + fish.

A compound of sable + fish

Middle Low German sabel

Medieval Latin sabelum

Old French sable ‘sable marten’

Middle English sable

English sable

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 dark-coloured marine fish of species Anoplopoma fimbria, of North American Pacific waters.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sablefish”. 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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