фишка

• фиска (fiska), fiska, fisk

Inherited from Norwegian Nynorsk fisk. Probably of southern origin, because the northern dialectal form is fesk.

May also be from German Fisch or even English, adding Russian ending -ка (-ka). It would explain the sound /ʂ/.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʲiʂkə/

фишка (fiška)

1. fish

From French fiche +‎ -ка (-ka).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfʲiʂkə]

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фи́шка • (fíška) f inan (genitive фи́шки, nominative plural фи́шки, genitive plural фи́шек, relational adjective фи́шечный)

1. (games) piece, counter, dib, marker, peg, token
2. (colloquial) invention, contrivance, device, (funny or special) idea
3. (colloquial) feature, peculiarity

• фигу́ра (figúra) (playing piece, especially chess)
• вы́думка (výdumka) (invention, idea)
• черта́ (čertá), осо́бенность (osóbennostʹ) (feature)
• фи́ча (fíča) (feature, colloquial)

Compounds:

• голуба́я фи́шка f (golubája fíška) (голубы́е фи́шки f pl (golubýje fíški))

Phrases

• как фи́шка ля́жет (kak fíška ljážet)

• жето́н (žetón)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “фишка”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “фишка”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882) “фиша”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.