different between fisk vs fisking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?sk/

Etymology 1

Compare Swedish fjäska (“to bustle about”).

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.
   • March 29 1549, Hugh Latimer, fourth sermon preached before King Edward VI

     He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from fisking.

Verb

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.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fesk/, [fes??]

Etymology 1

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 *peys?- (“fish”).

Noun

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)

Inflection

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

See fiske (“to fish”).

Verb

fisk

1. imperative of fiske

Elfdalian

Etymology

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

Noun

fisk m

1. fish

Declension

Faroese

Noun

fisk

1. accusative singular of fiskur

Icelandic

Noun

fisk

1. indefinite accusative singular of fiskur

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

1. a fish

Derived terms

See also derived terms at fiske.

Related terms

• fiske
• fisker

Etymology 2

Verb

fisk

1. imperative of fiske

References

• “fisk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?sk/

Noun

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

1. a fish

Derived terms

See also derived terms at fiske.

Related terms

• fiske
• fiskar

References

• “fisk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• fisc

Etymology

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

Noun

fisk m

1. fish

Descendants

• Middle High German: visch
  • Bavarian: Fiisch

    Cimbrian: biss, visch

    Mòcheno: visch

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Fisch

    Kölsch: Fesch

  • German: Fisch
  • Luxembourgish: Fësch
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Palatine German: Fusch, Fisch

  • Vilamovian: fej?
  • Yiddish: ????? (fish)

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• fisc, visk, visc

Etymology

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

Noun

fisk m

1. fish

Declension

Descendants

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

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk

Noun

fisk c

1. (zoology) fish
2. Pisces (star sign)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

• fiks

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?sk/

Noun

fisk c (plural fisken, diminutive fiskje)

1. fish

Further reading

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

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse fiskr, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peys?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?sk/, /fe?sk/

  Rhymes: -??sk

Noun

fisk

1. A fish.

Declension

Related terms

• fiskj
• fiskjälä
• fiskres
• fiskspänning
• fisktjuv
• fiskuv

English

Etymology

Named after journalist Robert Fisk (for the surname, see Fisk). Originated in the blogosphere.

Noun

fisking (plural fiskings)

1. A rebuttal to an article or blog made by quoting its content in sections and refuting each section individually.

Related terms

• fisk

References

• Jargon file

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fisking f or m (definite singular fiskinga or fiskingen, uncountable)

1. fishing
2. (in sports) to wait around the opponent's goal waiting for a pass