The story
- French · derived fromciscoette
- English todaysiscowet
From an Ojibwe word, given by some English dictionaries as pemitewiskawet ("fish with oily meat") (compare bimide (“grease”), -skaw- (“meat of a fish”), -e (“an incorporating final”)), perhaps via French ciscoette.
Words from the same roots
Frenchciscoette all →
cisco
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.