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elqane'j

Pronunciation guide: el·hga·neech

Recording by Diane (Listuguj) 🔉
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Part of speech: noun animate
Translation: Ground fish

Meanings:

ground fish
any bottom feeder

Example of word used in sentence:

Elqane'jg na lampo'q wesgowita'jig.
Ground fish spend their time at the bottom of the river.

Recording by Diane (Listuguj) 🔉

Alternate forms:

ground fish

(plural)

a ground fish

(fourth person)

Other words from category fish

agumegw - herring - 🔉
ajoqlue'j - perch - 🔉
a'lutasit - guide (by boat) / fishing guide - 🔉
anagwe'j - flounder - 🔉
a'papi - rope / fishing line - 🔉
a'pi - net / fishnet - 🔉
a'pia'q - using a net / fishing with a net - 🔉
a'piet - fish with net - 🔉
a'pimit - have net - 🔉
atoqwa'su - trout - 🔉
atoqwa'sue'get - fish for trout - 🔉
awaniwsget - fishes poorly / unskilled fisherman - 🔉
egwitamet - fish - 🔉
elqane'j - ground fish / any bottom feeder - 🔉
e's - clam - 🔉
gaqpesaw - smelt - 🔉
ga't - eel - 🔉
ga'tewe'get - hunt eels / catch eels - 🔉
ga'tomi - eelskin - 🔉
glatpetaw - freshwater catfish / horned pout (kind of fish) - 🔉
gomgwej - sucker (fish) - 🔉
go'pign - dip net (for 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 - 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 - 🔉
peju - codfish - 🔉
pejue'get - fish for cod - 🔉
pejuei - codfish meat - 🔉
pesa'la - skin fish - 🔉
pe'talatl - catch 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 - 🔉
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 - 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) - 🔉