Etymology

sac-a-lait

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Louisiana French sac-à-lait ← Choctaw sakli ← nai-mus-pro *¢akliCo
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The story

  1. nai-mus-pro · derived from*¢akliCo“trout”
  2. Choctaw · derived fromsakli“trout”
  3. Louisiana French · borrowed fromsac-à-lait
  4. English todaysac-a-lait

From Louisiana French sac-à-lait (literally “bag of milk”), a folk etymology reinterpretation of Choctaw sakli (“trout”), ultimately from Proto-Muskogean *¢akliCo (“trout”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.