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lake trout

namegos na nj
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a lake trout

[
lake trout
; 
Salvelinus namaycush
]



namegos sg; namegosag pl; Stem: /namegos-/

namegos sg nj
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namegosag pl nj
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The scientific name for the species namaycush was made either from this Ojibwe name for the fish or from a cognate name in a closely related Algonquian language. 

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Word Family

namegos na a lake trout
namegosikaa vii there are (many) lake trout

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