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■k, a suffix found in verbs and nouns : 



ebanthook to drink, from ebanthoo water. 



obesedeek gloves, perhaps (if not plural form) from obosheen, q. v. 



Verbs in -k were mentioned supra ; -ook forms plurals of substan- 

 tives, also numerals ; in Micmac the suffix for the plural of animates 



is -uk, -k, for inanimates -ul, -1 ; in Abnaki-ak,-al. 

 -m occurs in nouns like dingyam clothes, lathum (?) trap, woodum pond ; 



also in ibadinnam, jewmetchem, etc. 

 ■n, suffix of objective case and of many substantives. 

 ■ oret, nominal suffix in bobboosoret codfish, bogodoret heart, manaboret 



blanket, oodrat fire, shawatharott man. 

 •uit, -wit occurs in kadimishuite tickle, ethenwit fork, mondicuet lamp, 



Demasduit, nom. pr., guashuwit bear ; also in sundry verbs. 

 -ut occurs in nouns : 



woas-sut Indian woman, mokothut fish-species, madyrut hiccough. 



Prefixed Parts of Speech. 



Follows a series of terms or parts of speech, found only at the beginning 

 of certain words. "Whether they are particles of an adverbial or prepo- 

 sitional nature (prefixes), or fragments of nouns, was not possible for me 

 to decide. The dissyllabic nature of some of them seems to favor a nomi- 

 nal origin. 

 bogo-, buka-: bogodoret, abbr. bedoret heart. 



bogomat breast. 



bogathoowytch to kill, beat. 



bukashaman man. 



buggishamesh boy. 



shema bogosthuc moskito. 

 ee- is the prefix of numerals in the decad from 11 to 19. 

 hada-, ada-, hoda-, odo-, od- is found in terms for tools, implements, parts 



of the animal body ; a is easily confounded with o by English-speak- 

 ing people. 



haddabothic body, hadabatheek belly ' 



hodamishit knee, cf. hothamashet to run. 



hadalahet glass and glass-vase. 



hadowadet shovel, cf. od-ishuik to cut, and godawik. 



adamadret gun, rifle. 



adadimite spoon. 



ardobeesh twine ; is also spelt adobeesh (Howley). 



adothook fishhook. 



adoltkhtek, odo-othyke boat, vessel, 

 mama-, mema-. The terms commencing with this group are all arrayed in 



alphabetic order on pp. 420, 421, and point to living organisms or 



parts of such or dwellings. 



