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silverfish

noun

Etymology

From silver + fish: from its appearance, in the case of the insect.

  1. inherited from *peysk-✻ — “fish”
  2. inherited from *fiskaz✻ — “fish”
  3. inherited from *fisk✻
  4. inherited from fisċ — “fish”
  5. inherited from fisch
  6. compounded as silverfish — “silver + fish”

Definitions

  1. Certain insects

  2. Certain fish

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for silverfish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA