Etymology

namaycush

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Today it means: The togue: a large North American lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, usually spotted with red. Full definition →

Cree ᓇᒣᑯᐢ ← Proto-Algonquian *name·kwa
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  1. Proto-Algonquian · derived from*name·kwa“lake trout”
  2. Cree · borrowed fromᓇᒣᑯᐢ“lake trout”
  3. English todaynamaycush

Borrowed from Cree ᓇᒣᑯᐢ (namekos, “lake trout”), from Proto-Algonquian *name·kwa (“lake trout”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.