U.S. Also 8 titymagg, 9 tittameg, tickomeg; attikimek, attihawmeg. [From Amer. Indian: in Odjibway atikameg, Menominee attaikummeeg, Chippeway adikumaig: see quot. 1851.] A whitefish of Canadian and North American lakes, Coregonus clupeiformis.
1748. H. Ellis, Hudson’s Bay, 185. Called by the French, White Fish, but by the Indians and English, Titymagg.
1768. Wales, in Phil. Trans., LX. 127. Fishermen up the river … brought us down plenty of pyke, mathoy, and tittymeg: these two last being fish peculiar to this country [Churchill River, Hudson’s Bay].
1851. Sir J. Richardson, Arctic Search Exped., xiv. II. 51. ‘White-fish, to which the Chippeways … have given the figurative appellation of ‘reindeer of the waters,’ Adikumaig.
1879. D’Anvers, trans. J. Verne’s Fur Country (1890), 21. Countless legions of tittamegs.
1905. A. Haggard, Bond of Sympathy, 120. Even attikimek, the whitefish, this year can no longer be captured in nets.
