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maashkinoozhe
Ojibwe · pre-1700s
"ugly pike"
literally 'ugly pike', naming the large predatory freshwater fish
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masquinongé
Canadian French · 1700s
"a large freshwater game fish"
adapted by French-Canadian trappers and fishers in the Great Lakes region
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muskellunge
English · 1780s-1790s
"a large predatory freshwater fish of the pike family"
anglicized from the French-Canadian form
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