saumache

== French == === Alternative forms === saumalt, saumate, somache === Etymology === From Middle French saumace, ultimately from Latin salmacidus, doublet of saumâtre. === Adjective === saumache (plural saumaches) (only said of water, dialectal, mostly Genevan and sailor cant, obsolete) brackish, resembling, approaching the taste of salt water ==== See also ==== samaciu (Provençal) saumacre (Normandy) === Noun === saumache f (plural saumaches) (dialectal, mostly Genevan and sailor cant, obsolete) brackish water === Further reading === Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “saumâtre”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette “saumache” in Jean-François Féraud, Dictionnaire Vivant de la Langue Française “saumace” in Dictionnaire du Moyen Français