Muskellunge
/ˌmʌskəˈlʌndʒ/noun
A large North American freshwater fish of the pike family.
Did you know?English muskellunge is borrowed from Ojibwe and related Algonquian forms, where the name referred to the fish itself rather than carrying any occult meaning.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Algonquian
PA
*maškinoša
“a pike-like fish”
Ojibwe
OJ
maashkinoozhe
“a large pike or muskellunge”
17th-18th Century
French/English
muskellunge
“a borrowed name for the fish, adapted into European spelling”
Modern English
English
muskellunge
“the North American freshwater fish Esox masquinongy”