tamarack

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
2. (countable, uncountable) The wood from such a tree.

Sinonieme

American larch

Larix laricina

black larch

larch

hackmatack

subalpine larch

Eastern larch

balsam

tamarack larch

cedar

hackmarack

Alaskan larch

eastern larch

Etimologie (Engels)

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.