Translation
fish
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Word origin
From the Germanic family: German Fisch and English fish. Latin piscis is the same Indo-European root wearing Romance clothes.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- Fisch
- English cognates
- fish
Examples
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Many fish live in the river.
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We ate fish with bread.
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The old man caught a big fish in the sea.
Unlike English, the plural is regular and required: one , two , no invisible plural to trip over. Going fishing is , literally fish-catching, and the person doing it for a living is a o. The word covers the animal and the food alike, as in most languages, so needs no second word for the dish.
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Word family
Words built on fiŝo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- fiŝaĵonoun
fish (as food)
fiŝo-aĵ-: something made from fish
- fiŝkaptiverb
to fish, to angle
fiŝokapti
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 4: fiŝo, diskuti, Kristnasko and 5 more words.