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RENCE of something which is designated by the prefix, whether 

 Ground Nuts, Pollock, Englishmen, or what not. The same idea 

 inheres in the Maine words ending in -KANTI-, all of Trumbull's 

 own illustrations seeming to me to fit better this idea of OCCUR- 

 RENCE than that of the PLENTY which he tried to draw from them. 

 The reason for the prominence of this idea of PLENTY is obvious 

 enough, for it is of course true that the PRESENCE or OCCUR- 

 RENCE of any object to a degree sufficient to attract comment and 

 originate a place-name does imply a considerable ABUNDANCE, 

 which may therefore be taken as a prominent secondary implication of 

 the word, even though the idea of OCCURRENCE is the primary 

 significance. 



While it is not needful for our present purposes to analyse further 

 this root-KA'DI-, we should note that it seems clearly connected with 

 the second part of the Micmac verb ETLUGADUM, meaning DWELL 

 or RESIDE, as fully considered later under TRACADIE (page 436), 

 which is directly derived therefrom. Trumbull, in his work earlier 

 cited, has, attempted a still farther analysis of the root into two 

 components, which, however, seem to me not well applicable to our 

 Micmac forms. 



Since for descriptive purposes we need a standard meaning as 

 well as form for this prominent and important root, I have adopted 

 OCCURRENCE, in conformity to the foregoing argument, through- 

 out this paper. Thus the standard form in full would be -A-KA'DI- 

 (K), meaning THEIR (or ITS) -OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). 



In Father Pacifique's valuable Micmac Almanac of 1902, are 

 contained many place-names ending in -EGATIG, which is his equiva- 

 lent for Rand's -ÂKÀDE, and our -AKA'DI-(K). In some cases 

 these names are exactly equivalent to Rand's except for the spelling; 

 in other cases, they represent, as Father Pacifique has himself informed 

 me, adapted or made-up names, introduced for purposes of convenience 

 in his enumeration of Indian settlements; and in many cases they 

 embody the name of the titular Saint of the church of the place, with 

 this termination, such names being further distinguishable, as a rule, 

 by a prefatory S. All of Father Pacifique's names that I could be sure 

 are aboriginal have been mentioned in the foregoing pages. 



Aside from the case of TRACADIE above mentioned, there 

 appears to be no root in our Acadian place-names which can be con- 

 fused with -A-KA'DI-(K), while the same seems true of the -KONTE 

 of the Indians of Maine, for the possible cases cited by Trumbull appear 

 not to occur in reality. There is, however, a certain relation between 

 this root and the termination -A-WIK, or -A-VIK, (as for example 

 in Magaguadavic), already explained in the first paper of this series 



