Fishkill
English
Etymology
From Dutch Viskil, composed of vis (“fish”) + kil (“creek”), modified or calqued based on the English cognates fish and (Dutch-origin) kill.
Proper noun
Fishkill
- A town and village therein, in Dutchess County, New York, United States.
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *péysks
- English terms derived from Dutch
- English terms derived from Old Dutch
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Middle Dutch
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms borrowed from Dutch
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Towns in New York, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:Villages in New York, USA
- en:Villages in the United States
- en:Places in New York, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- English terms calqued from Dutch