namaycush

English

Etymology

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

Noun

namaycush (plural namaycush)

(Canada, US) The togue: a large North American lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, usually spotted with red.

Synonyms

(Salvelinus namaycush): Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, tuladi

References

namaycush in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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