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cognate with A. k'piwi ' 'n\ the woods.' Withkeelno 'a young 

 man/ composed of withkee, A. uski, Oj. oshki * yo\xx\g' and Itnno 

 * man.' See on IV. '^. IVauk 'and,' written woak in O. D."' 

 Wsheetha ' his uncle ' =r O. D. schiess 'uncle'; A. nzasis 'my 

 mother-in-law's brother'; Oj. nijishe 'my uncle.' Seel.'', ^, but 

 III. % wsheethul with obviative -/. Mahji ' already ' = O. D. 

 metschi and A. majimiwi ' oXwd^ys' ; cp. Oj. aji 'already.' Kihk- 

 weelno 'old man,' from kihkwee ; cp. O. D. kikey -\- linno ' man.' 

 Wrhalin ' many '; cp. O. D. chweli. Ncepnuino ' summer ' = O.D. 

 nipen ; A. 7iiben ; Oj. nibin. 



I. ^ Tah lickee = O. D. ^a/i likhique ' once upon a time.' Mon- 

 tour had written wrongly ian lickee here. O. D. likhique ' now, 

 about this time.' Weenamulthoo (O. D. winamallsin, A. akuamalsi) 

 'he feels sick.' Oo7ijeeniawuh 'he calls him'; cp. O. D. wunt- 

 schiman 'he summons him,' composed of wuntshi 'from' and 

 Vma ' call' ; so A. uwikwimon 'he calls him,' where the last part 

 of the stem is identical with the Minsi. Wliinquathitha ' his 

 nephew '= O.D. limk 'nephew.' Aleh-mawmjeenah-kihkloolaut. 

 Aleh ' in order that '; mawDijeenah = O. D. inamtschitsch ' for the 

 last time ' (A. iiiomjessald) ; kihkloolaut is a reduplicated participle, 

 3 p. anim. 'bespeaks' ixomV klooL See Prince, AJP., xxi, p. 

 298, on this stem and cp. A. kalolomuk ' one speaks.' 



1," Lawalindut?i, cp. O. D. uschuwelendam 'he is grieved.' 

 Leetahah 'he thinks' =0. D. litchen ; A. alidahomuk 'one 

 thinks.' Gutauch for tigutauch ' I will' make ' (it), with n- pref. of 

 I p. and -ch sign of the future (A. -ji), Wlutchawha ' so that it 

 pleases him.' The first element \% wule- ^ good^,' 'pleasing' (A. 

 wuli). Jeeth 'my uncle' for njeeth=^0. D. tischiess. Montour 

 always leaves off the n prefix of the first person before a consonant ; 

 cp. below III. ^ ; dilnoom dulmeetheemich. 



\. ^ Noolihtoomich 'I will make it'; «= 'I'; i p. prefix; 

 oolihtoo ' make '; w is the sign of inanimate ; ich = fut. ending. Cp. 

 A. noliionji ' I will make it.' Mihtqueeiiooiee^i^O. D. (Zeisberger) 

 micMquinotees (dim.) ' a basket, something made of sticks '; cp. A. 

 w'mi ^kwtonakwdno ' they pry it open with sticks.' Kpuheekun = 

 O. D. kpahikan 'cover, lid'; 'something to shut;' cp. O.D. 



7 A. = Abenaki ; O. D. stands for Old Delaware, the mixed language of the 

 missionaries. 



AJP. = Amer. Journal of Philology. 



