Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tuladi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tu-la-di
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, found mainly in Canada and northern areas of the US.

Example Sentences

"In Long Lake there are plenty of tuladi (salmon trout) and trout. […] I have caught tuladi running as high as sixteen pounds in the Fish River Lakes. The tuladi in Long Lake are the best, always fat. There are two kinds of tuladi; the one with the white belly is poorer than that which has spots on its belly."
"[…] a narrow sheet of water, about 22 M. long, abounding in large-sized trout and 'tuladi', a heavy fish of the salmon family."

Etymology

From Canadian French touladi, from an Eastern Algonquian language. (The fish is sometimes said to take its name from the Touladi River where some spawn, but the river more likely takes its name from the fish.)

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: touladi

Inflected Forms

tuladis (plural)

Synonyms

lake trout togue mackinaw trout namaycush

Questions

What does tuladi mean?: A large lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, found mainly in Canada and northern areas of the US.
Where does tuladi come from?: It is traced to French.

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