qunnamaug

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Narragansett

Etymology

Meaning "long fish", from the roots *qunni (“long”) and -amaug ("fish"). Compare Massachusett qunnammag (“bass”).[1][2]

Noun

qunnamáug anim (plural qunnamáugsuck)

  1. lamprey

References

  1. ^ James Hammond Trumbull (1903) “*qunnamáug”, in Natick Dictionary, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 139
  2. ^ Josiah Cotton (1707) Vocabulary of the Massachusetts (or Natick) Indian language, Cambridge: E. W. Metcalf & Co., published 1829, →OCLC, page 15

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