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語源

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.

名詞

tamarack (countable and uncountable, plural tamaracks)

1. Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
   • 2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 36:

     The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads.

   • 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 116:

     The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.

   1. especially, Larix laricina

      Synonyms: American larch, weeping hemlock, hackmatack, black larch, tamarak

2. Wood from such a tree.

同意語

• hackmatack
• tacamahac

参照

• “tamarack”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.