186 PRINCE — PASSAMAQUODDY WITCHCRAFT TALES. [Nov. 17^ 



Grammatical Analysis. 



^ K'chi means properly "big," but in Pass, and Abn. it is fre- 

 quently used for "old;" cf. Abn. addlT.k\chiawtt "he. who is old- 

 est" (participle). Oj. kitchi, Cree ki'chi mean "big." In Oj., how-^ 

 ever, the prefix kete-, clearly allied to k'cJu, means " old." Both the 

 Del. chinge '• big " and kikey " old " (modern kikes " adults^ 

 parents ") undoubtedly belong here. I doubt, however, whether 

 we should compare with this root, as Brinton does {^Lenape, pp. 

 102-4), the large class of derivatives in Del. beginning with^V^^-, 

 used to denote successful action, as in gischigin " to begin life, to be 

 born;" gischiton **he makes it ready;" Abn. kizito, etc. The Cree 

 kije- "perfect" (La combe, Diet, de la Langue des Cris, s. v.) may^ 

 be cognate here. 



" M'deaulm "wizard" appears in old Del. as meteu "one wha 

 drums," e. g., a witch-doctor, referring to the practice of the medi- 

 cine men of beating drums to drive away evil spirits. Thus, Del. 

 meteohet is a drum or any hollow body. In mod. Del., meteu 

 denotes a turkey-cock, which drums with its wings (so Anthony in 

 Brinton, Lenape Diet., p. 83). Cf. Oj. medewin "sorcery" and 

 tewe-ige " he beats a drum " {(ewe-igun " drum "). 



3 In pzhegunul and the following word, we have the ending -Ul of 

 the obviative, or accus. of the third person, which appears in all the 

 Algic idioms. ^ 



♦ K'ni.kwchil " turtle " (note^the obv. -it as object of pohegiinul) 

 is an exact cognate 0/ abn. Mtkenakw " turde." Compare Micmac 

 nnkchikch, Oj. mishike " turde." 



* Oma(nteniydl, also in the obv., is cle^irly cognate with Del. 

 maehtenalittin, machtayen " to quarrel." ^ 



^ In skitdp " man " {-yil, obv. e?i)<?ing), sometimes uskitdp, we evi- 

 dently have the ending -ape, wh'.sH b issed ij> Del. as the regular 

 terminal to denote the human male. Tlius, len^pe ' a Del. Indian " 

 {Itnno "man "-f 5/1). With 'Himzo, cf. Cr.ztUi^ Oj. inini, O. Abn. 

 aren-dnde, Mod. Abn. dln-dmbd, O. Narragansett nin, Naugatuck 

 rink, etc. Del. kik-dpe, " a bachelor," is formed in the same way. 

 Brinton {Len., p. 100) derives -npe from a rooc ap "to cover sexu- 

 ally," which he states appears in Oj., used only of the lower ani- 

 mals. I cannot find it so applied. This Spe, however, is found 

 in O. Abn. tirdn-Mbe, Modern Abn. dln-ombd (Penobscot ah-dmbd) 

 " Indian," and in old Mass. wusketomp " man," exactly equivalent to 



