Etymograph

English

seabream

From sea + bream.

A compound of sea + bream

Proto-Germanic *saiwiz ‘sea, lake’

Proto-West Germanic *saiwi ‘body of water’

Old English sǣ

Middle English see ‘sea’

English sea

Proto-West Germanic *brahsmō

Frankish *brahsma

Old French breme

Middle English breme ‘stormy, tempestuous, fierce’

English bream

Today it means

noun Any of several species of marine fish of the families Sparidae or Bramidae found in shallow temperate and tropical waters around the world.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “seabream”. 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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