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tamarack

ta·ma·rack

uncommon

noun

1.

medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark

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Origin

From Canadian French tamarac, believed to derive from an Algonquian word. In European languages there was contamination between tacamahac, from Nahuatl, and various Algonquian words containing the final Proto-Algonquian *-a·xkw- (“hardwood or deciduous tree”), including the sources of tamarack and hackmatack, as was already recognized by Chamberlain 1902. This makes the precise Algonquian words involved difficult to recover.

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