fisk

• IPA^(key): /fɪsk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsk
• Homophone: fisc

Compare Swedish fjäska (“to bustle about”).

fisk (third-person singular simple present fisks, present participle fisking, simple past and past participle fisked)

1. (obsolete) To run about; to fist; to whisk.
   • 1549 April 8 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Fourth Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer whiche He Preached before Kyng Edwarde [VI], the .XXIX. Day of Marche.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 50, recto:

     [W]hen the light of Goddes word is once reueled, then he is buſy, then he rores then he fyſkes abrode, and ſtyrreth vp erronious opiniõs.

Back-formation from fisking.

fisk (third-person singular simple present fisks, present participle fisking, simple past and past participle fisked)

1. To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.
   • 2002 December, Institute of Public Affairs, “The World of Blog”, in Review‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 September 2009:

     A proper fisking leaves the reader with a clear understanding that the text so fisked was appallingly wrong in every important respect!

   • 2008 March 13, “Fisked By Obama”, in The Economist:

     Now, apparently, Barack Obama's campaign is fisking Hillary Clinton's campaign memos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfesk/, [ˈfe̝sɡ̊], [ˈfe̝sk]

From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”). Cognate with English fish and German Fisch. The Germanic word is related to Latin piscis, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”).

fisk c (singular definite fisken, plural indefinite fisk)

1. fish
2. Pisces (someone with a Pisces star sign)
3. (card games) Go Fish (a card game for children)

• fisk on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Fisk (kortspil) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Fisk (flertydig) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

See fiske (“to fish”).

fisk

1. imperative of fiske

From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Cognate with Swedish fisk.

fisk m

1. fish

stem=strong ''a''-stem

fisk

1. accusative singular of fiskur

fisk

1. indefinite accusative singular of fiskur

• IPA^(key): /fɪsk/

From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”).

fisk m (definite singular fisken, indefinite plural fisker, definite plural fiskene)

1. a fish

See also derived terms at fiske.

• fiske
• fisker

fisk

1. imperative of fiske

• “fisk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• fesk (dialectal)

From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Akin to English fish.

• IPA^(key): /fɪsk/

fisk m (definite singular fisken, indefinite plural fiskar, definite plural fiskane)

1. a fish

See also derived terms at fiske.

• fiske
• fiskar

• “fisk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• fisc

From Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, whence also Old English fisċ, Old Norse fiskr, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Cognates include Latin piscis.

• IPA^(key): /fis̄k/

fisk m

1. fish

• Middle High German: visch, fisch, visc, vesc
  • Bavarian: Fiisch
    • Cimbrian: viss, biss, visch
    • Mòcheno: visch
  • Central Franconian: Fesch
    • Hunsrik: Fisch
    • Kölsch: Fesch
    • Luxembourgish: Fësch
    • Transylvanian Saxon: Fäsch
  • German: Fisch
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Palatine German: Fusch, Fisch
    • Pennsylvania German: Fisch
  • Vilamovian: fejś
  • Yiddish: פֿיש (fish)

fisk

1. accusative singular of fiskr

• fisc, visk, visc

From Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, whence also Old English fisċ, Old Dutch and Old High German fisk, Old Norse fiskr, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

fisk m

1. fish

• Middle Low German: visch, vis
  • Low German: Fisch
    • Dutch Low Saxon: visch
    • German Low German: Fisk, Fiss, Fisch, Fösch
  • Plautdietsch: Fesch

• Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

• фишка (fiška), фиска (fiska), fiska

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

fisk

1. fish

From Old Swedish fisker, from Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”).

• IPA^(key): /fɪsk/
• Rhymes: -ɪsk

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fisk c

1. (zoology) a fish
   • 1995, “Fiskarna i haven [The fish in the seas]”, in Staffan Hellstrand (music), Idde Schultz‎^[2], performed by Idde Schultz:

     Fiskarna i haven, och fåglarna på taken.

     The fish in the seas, and the birds on the roofs.

2. Pisces (star sign)

fisk

1. (games) low placed (of a hidden hidden object)

   Coordinate terms: fågel, mittemellan

   – Det börjar brännas.
   – Fågel, fisk eller mittemellan?

   – It's getting hot.
   – High, low or in-between?

   (literally, “Bird, fish or in-between?”)

• fisk in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fisk in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fisk in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH

• fiks

From Old Frisian fisk, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

• IPA^(key): /fɪsk/

fisk c (plural fisken, diminutive fiskje)

1. fish

• “fisk”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011