siscowet
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English
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Etymology
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.[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
siscowet (plural siscowets)
- A freshwater fish from Lake Superior in the Great Lakes, a variety of the lake trout.
References
- The Random House Dictionary
- The Great Minnesota Fish Book
- Oxford English Dictionary
- ^ “siscowet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ “siscowet”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.