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atikameg Various spellings. [< Algonk.: Cree] 
n. a widely distributed North American food fish, Coregonus sp., especially C. clupeaformis.
- 1665 (1885) . . . if once we could come to that place we should make good cheare of a fish that they call Assickmack, wch signifieth a white fish.
- 1760 The chief nourishment of the Michilimakinais was fish . . . such as . . . asticameque, or white fish.
- 1858 (1860) This important source of food in these regions is well named At-ik-um-aig.
- 1905 (1954) There is an excellent food fish in the lakes of that region--the white fish ("titimeg" or "atikameg" as the Crees called it). . . .
- 1909 From these deep cisterns he had seen the Indian fishermen take whitefish, the ahtikameg (deer-of-the-water), twenty pounds in weight. . . .
- 1665 (1885) . . . if once we could come to that place we should make good cheare of a fish that they call Assickmack, wch signifieth a white fish.