siscowet

English

Alternative forms

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
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪs.kəˌwɛt/

Noun

siscowet (plural siscowets)

  1. 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
  1. “siscowet”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  2. “siscowet”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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