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Since for centuries about the only fish known to the Hispanic hillbillies in the mountain valleys of northern New Mexico were trout, the word for trout, trucha, has become generic, supplanting pez and pescado for fish in everyday language.
So, I concluded, when Nellie Griego subliminally translated her Spanish word for fish into English, in the process carrying over the Spanish gender, it was the feminine gender of trucha or its diminutive truchita rather than the masculine gender of pez that she attached to the English word.