methy

English

Etymology

From Woods Cree mathay (“burbot”); compare Cree miyay.

Noun

methy (plural methies)

1. (US, Canada, dated) The burbot.
   • 1824, John Franklin, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, volume 1, page 144:

     The occow, or river perch, termed also horn-fish, piccarel, or doré, is common, but is not so much esteemed as the attihhawmeg. It attains the length of twenty inches in these lakes. The methy is another common fish; it is the gadus lota, or burbot, of Europe.

   • 1836, Richard King, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, volume 1, page 53:

     In addition to the sturgeon, the fishery occasionally yields the white-fish, pike, various kinds of trout, the methy, and several sucking-carp.

   • 1873, Anual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, for the year ending the 30th June, 1872, page 191:

     Our Loche or Methy is not a fashionable fish, […]

Anagrams

• mythe, thyme