taimen

From Russian тайме́нь (tajménʹ, “Hucho taimen”), from Middle Russian таймень (tajmenʹ), from Old Novgorodian таимень (taimenĭ), from Finnish taimen (“Salmo trutta”).

taimen (plural taimens)

1. A species of salmon (Hucho taimen), living in Siberia.
   • 1988 May 27, Nelson Bryant, “OUTDOORS; Quest for a 100-Year-Old Fish”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.

• Siberian salmon, Siberian taimen

• Hucho taimen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hucho taimen on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Hucho taimen on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Etamin, Tamien, Tieman, etamin, inmate, inmeat, tamine

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑi̯men/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝i̯me̞n]
• Rhymes: -ɑimen
• Syllabification^(key): tai‧men
• Hyphenation^(key): tai‧men

From Proto-Finnic *taimën, an extension of Proto-Finnic *taimi (“trout, salmon”). Cognates include Karelian taimen and Estonian taim. Russian тайме́нь (tajménʹ), Latvian taimiņš and dialectal Swedish tajmenlax are borrowed from Finnic. Similar-sounding words include taima (“ceiling joist”) or taimi (“sapling”), but they are not likely related.

taimen

1. brown trout (Salmo trutta)

• “taimen”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

taimen

1. genitive singular of taimi

• animet

taimen

1. Rōmaji transcription of たいめん

From Proto-Finnic *taimi. Cognates include Finnish taimi.

taimen

1. sprout, shoot, seedling