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wobee white; Micm. wabaee, Naskapi waahpou, wahpoau white; also in all 

 Eastern Alg. dialects, cf. B. wobesheet sleeve, probably for "white 

 sleeve," and Micrnac wobun daylight. 



(2.) Beothuk icords resembling terms of Algonkin dialects comparable to 

 them in phonetics and signification. Some of them were extracted from 

 R. G. Latham's comparative list, in his Comp. Philology, pp. 453-455. 



bathuk rain; Micmac ikfashak, -paesuk in kiekpaesuk rain; but the other 

 forms given in Beothuk, badoese and watshoosooch, do not agree. Cf. 

 ebanthoo water. 



boobeshawt fire. The radix is boob- and hence no analogy exists with 

 Ottawa ashkote, Abnaki skoutai and other Alg. terms for fire men- 

 tioned by Latham. 



bukashaman white man, man. Affinity with Micmac wabe akecheenom 

 white man (jaaenan man) through aphaeresis of wa- is exceedingly 

 doubtful. Compare the Beothuk prefixed syllable bogo-. 



ernet oil; Abnaki pemmee, Ojibwe bimide oil; Micmac mema' oil, fat, 

 grease. 



kannabuch long ; cf. the Algonkin names Kennebec, Quinnipiac long 

 (inlet), and the Virginian cunnaivwh long (Strachey, p. 190). 



kewis, kuis sun, watch; watcha-gewis moon (the form kius is misspelt); 

 Micm. nakoushet sun, topa-nakoushet moon (in Naskapi beshung, 

 beeshoon sun and moon). The ordinary term in the Eastern Alg. lan- 

 guages is gisis, kisus, kishis for both celestial bodies ; goos is the Mic- 

 mac month appended to each of their month-names. 



magaraguis, magaragueis, mangaroouish son. Latham, supposing guis 

 to be the portion of the word signifying son, has quoted numerous 

 analogies, as Cree equssis, Ottawa kwis, Shawano koisso, etc., but 

 Robinson has mangarewius sun, King has kewis, kuis sun, moon, 

 which makes the above term very doubtful. Probably it was the re- 

 sult of a misunderstanding ; cf. magorun deer(f), kewis sun. 



mamudthun mouth. Latham refers us to Abnaki madoon, Micmac 

 toon, but Leigh has mameshook for mouth and memasook for tongue, 

 which proves that mam-, mem- is the radix of the Beothuk word and 

 not dthun. 



mamoodthuk dog, mamoosemitch puppy; Micmac alamonch, elmooche 

 dog, elmooieek. puppies, Abnaki almoosesauk puppies (alma- in Abn. 

 corresponds to mama- in Beothuk). 



manjebathook bread contains in its final part beothuk man, people ; and in 

 its first perhaps Micmac megisee, maegeechimk to eat, mijese I eat, or 

 the French manger, obtained through Micmac Indians. So the sig- 

 nification would be "people's food." 



manus berries; Micmac minigechal berries may be compared, provided 

 mini- is the basis of the term. 



moosin moccasin, meoson shoe; probably originated from Abnaki (and 

 other Algonkin) : mkison moccasin through ellipse. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXIII. 123. 3b. PRINTED JUNE 12, 1886. 



