1886.] 4J1 [Gatschet. 



(4.) The first person of the singular is, according to the interpretation, 



contained in the vocables : 



ajeedick or vieedisk Hike. 



boochauwit 1 am hungry, cf. dauosett. 



a-oseedwit I am ileepy, cf. bootzhawet sleep, isedoweet to sleep. 



thine I thank you. Cf. what was said of betheoate.* 

 (5.) Other personal forms of singular or plural are probably embodied 



in the terms : 



pokoodoont, from odoit to eat. 



ieroothack, jeroothack speak, from carmtack to speak. 



becket ? where do you, go ? 



boobasha, cf. obosheen warming yourself. 

 (6.) Forms in -p and -ss, if not misspelt, occur in : athep, athess to sit 



down, gamyess get up, gausep dead. 

 (7.) No conclusive instance of reduplication as a means of inflection or 



derivation occurs in any of the terms transmitted, though we may 



compare wawashemet, p. 4'23, Nonosabasut, nom. pr. Is mammateek 



a reduplication of meotick? 



Derivation. 



Derivatives and the mode of derivation are easier to trace in this insular 

 language than other grammatic processes. Although the existence of 

 prefixes is not certain as yet, derivation through suffixes can be proved by 

 many instances, and there was probably a large number of suffixes, sim- 

 ple and compound, in existence. Some of the suffixes were mentioned 

 above, and what may be considered as "prefixes (?)" will be treated of 

 separately. 



Suffix -eesh; -eech, -ish forms diminutive nouns : 

 mammusemitch puppy, from mamasameet dog. 

 mossessdeesh Indian boy. 

 buhashamesh boy, from bukashaman man. 

 woaseesh Indian girl, from woas-sut Indian woman. 

 shuwiinyish small vessel, from shuwan bucket, cup. 

 mandeweech bushes (?) ; hanyees finger. 

 Probably the term yeech short is only deduced from the above instances 

 of diminutives, and had no separate existence for itself. 

 -eet, a frequently occurring nominal suffix : 



a-eshemeet lumpfish, deddoweet saw, gaboweete breath, kosweet deer, 

 kusebeet louse, methabeet cattle, shebohoweet woodpecker, sheedenee- 

 sheet cocklebur, sosheet bat, tedesheet neck, wobesheet sleeve, proba- 

 bly from wobee white, Also occurring as a verbal ending, cf. above ; 

 hence, it is possible that the nouns in eet are simply nomina verbalia 

 of verbs in -eet, -it. 



*The Algonkin na-, nu-, n- of the first person occurs in none of these exam- 

 ples. 



