Etymograph

English

treefish

From tree + fish.

A compound of tree + fish

Proto-Indo-European *dóru

Proto-Germanic *trewą

Proto-West Germanic *treu

Old English trēo ‘tree’

Middle English trau

English tree

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 Sebastes serriceps, a marine fish native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, with large spines on top of its head.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “treefish”. 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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