taqawanji'j :: grilse -- Mi'gmaq/Mi'kmaq Online

Translation: Grilse (returning salmon after single winter at sea)

Example of word used in a sentence:

Text: Taqawanji'jg na apjiw ugtejg wej'peta'jig.
Translation: Grilse are always the last ones to arrive.
Recording: Recording by jnw 🔉

Alternate Grammatical Forms:

taqawanji'jg -- grilse -- (plural)
taqawanji'jl, taqawanji'tl -- a grilse -- (fourth person)

Related entries for category "fish"

a'lulatl : guide (by boat)
a'lutasit : guide (by boat) / fishing guide
a'papi, a'papi : rope / fishing line
a'pi, a'pi : net / fishnet
a'pia'q, a'pia'q : using a net / fishing with a net
a'piet, a'piet : fish with net
a'pimit, a'pimit : have net
agumegw : herring
ajoqlue'j : perch
amlmaw : mackerel
anagwe'j, anakwe'j : flounder
atoqwa'su : trout
atoqwa'sue'get : fish for trout
awaniwsget : fishes poorly / unskilled fisherman
e's : clam
egwitamet : fish
elqane'j : ground fish / any bottom feeder
ga't : eel
ga'tewe'get : hunt eels / catch eels
ga'tomi : eelskin
gaqpesaw : smelt
glatpetaw : freshwater catfish / horned pout (kind of fish)
go'pign : dip net (for fish)
gomgwej, komkwej : sucker (fish)
gwi'sit : jump (reference to fish)
jagej : lobster
jagejue'get : trap lobsters
jigaw : bass
mena'piet : remove fish from a net
mena'piget : remove a net from the water
mgign : hook / fish hook
mntmu : oyster
msamu : shad
najiwsget : go fishing
najsigwet : check traps or nets
nantuat, nan'tuat : hunt eels in mud
napemegw : male fish
nigoq : fishing spear
nigoqji'j : small two·pronged spear
nigoqol : eel spear
nijinj : roe / seed
nisaqan : weir
nme'j : fish
nme'ji'j : any small fish / herring
nme'juaqan : fishery / fishing industry
nme'juo'q : fish bowl / fish tank
pe'talatl : catch fish
peju : codfish
pejue'get : fish for cod
pejuei : codfish meat
pesa'latl : skin fish
piwiges : scale (fish)
plamu : salmon
plamugwet : fish for salmon
plamuj : tommy cod / frost fish
poqjigwitmet : start off to fish
poqjiwsget : begin to fish
pqalmawj : black salmon
put'p : whale
put'pe'j : whale calf / young whale / small whale
sasap : jellyfish
sasqale's : scallop
seta'su : squid
sgwemegw : female fish
siga'lat : spawn / to produce or deposit (eggs) as fishes or frogs do
siga'law : spawn / (eggs) deposited from fishes or frogs
siglati : shark
so'qomu'j : minnow / gudgeon / sardine
taqawan : grilse / young salmon / young salmon after its first return from the sea
taqawanapi : grilse net / trout net
taqawanji'j : grilse
tmtmu, tm'tmu : oyster
umiggn : fishing gear / fishing rod
usgaqan : fishery / fishing industry
usgewinu : fisher
wapigle'wj : male salmon
waqtian : fish entrails / small fish entrails
wesget : fish
wisnaw : perch
witua'tijig : partners in boat (used in guiding)