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muskallonge

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mus⋅kal⋅longe

  [muhs-kuh-lonj]
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–noun, plural -longe.
muskellunge.

mus⋅kel⋅lunge

  [muhs-kuh-luhnj]
–noun, plural -lung⋅es, (especially collectively) -lunge.
a large game fish, Esox masquinongy, of the pike family, found in the lakes and rivers of eastern and middle western North America.
Also, maskalonge, maskinonge, muskallonge.

Origin:
1780–90, Americanism; earlier muskinunge, masquenongez (F sp.), etc., < CanF maskinongé < Ojibwa ma⋅skino⋅ŝe⋅, ma⋅ŝkino⋅ŝe⋅ (equiv. to Proto-Algonquian *mya⋅ŝi similar to, kind of + *kenweŝye⋅wa northern pike)
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Word Origin & History

muskellunge 
"large N.Amer. pike," 1789, from Algonquian (Ojibwa) maashkinoozhe; the second element kinoozhe "pike;" the first either mac "great," maazh- "similar to," or maazh- "ugly." Altered by Fr. folk etymology as masque allongé "long mask." Called muskie for short (1894).
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