Talk:fisk

etymology of fisk
In Appendix:List of Proto-Indo-European roots/h₂ it says that Old Norse fiskr is derived from Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/h₂ep-. In Appendix:List of Proto-Indo-European nouns it is said to derive from. Are they related or is one of them wrong? The etymology should be the same for Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, and in accordance with etymology 1 on fish, and Old High German fisk.--Leo Laursen – (talk · contribs) 14:11, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Mallory and Adams make the 'fish' word *piḱsḱos < *piḱ-sḱo 'spotted' built on *peiḱ 'paint, mark' and suppose it originally denoted the (spotted) trout. I happen to think that sounds more plausible than the *h₂p-isk- thing, but at any rate the appendix probably oughtn't take a speculative position on something on which there's no consensus like this.  69.134.90.190 01:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)