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muskellunge|ˈmʌskəlʌndʒ|
Also 8 maskinunga, muschilongoe, muskinunge, 9 masquinongé, -ongy, masquenonger, muscanonge, maskinonge, maskinongé, -ongy, maskenozha; masc-, maskal(l)onge, muscal(l)onge, masculonge, muskallunge, -al(l)onge, -alounge, -elunge, maskelonge, masque alonge; Dicts. maskalunge, muskullonge, -alinge, -elunjeh, moskalonge, etc.
[c gray][Odjibwa; spelt mackinonge, micikinonge by Cuoq Lexique de la langue algonquine (where c represents (ʃ[/c])). According to Cuoq, f. mac, mici great + kinonge pike; according to Baraga the first element is mask ugly.
The varieties of form are partly due to diversities of native dialect, partly to a French popular etymology which took the word as masque long or masque allongé, ‘long mask’.]
A large pike, Esox masquinongy, inhabiting the Great Lakes of North America, valued as a food-fish.
1794S. Williams Vermont 122 The Pike or Pickerel abounds much in Lake Champlain. It is there called by the name of Muschilongoe. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 352 Maskinungas, a very large species of pickerel. 1798I. Allen Hist. Vermont 13. 1809 A. Henry Trav. 30 Among the pike, is to be included the species, called, by the Indians, masquinongé. 1836J. Richardson Fauna Bor. Amer. iii. 127 Esox estor (Le Sueur), The Maskinongé. 1855Longfellow Hiawatha viii, And he said to the Kenozha, To the Pike, the Maskenozha. 1868B. J. Lossing The Hudson 61 Lake George..abounds with fine fish, the largest and most delicious being the Masque alonge. 1884G. B. Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim. I. 466 At Sacket's Harbor very few Muskellunge are caught. 1894Outing XXIV. 454/1 A dinner of muscallonge steaks. 1899Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 445 The big trout and maskinonge were stirring themselves in the depths of the lake. 1946Wisconsin State Jrnl. 18 July 1/4 Gen. Dwight D. ‘Ike’ Eisenhower and his four brothers all continued their fishing luck Wednesday when they hit the jack pot with a muskellunge each. 1959E. Tunis Indians 40/2 Not to be despised, however, was the big pike called muskellunge by the Algonquins, the name it still bears. 1963Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Apr. 5/6 He is also an officer of the Outdoor Writers of Canada and only in one respect might he come into conflict with his companions on that body—by using the U.S. term muskellunge instead of the accepted, original Canadian name, maskinonge. 1970R. Lowell Notebk. 251 Each night, a star, gold-on-black, a muskellunge, Dies in the highest sphere that never dies. |