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notes), while another Micmac gave it to me as SEE-WA-DEE', which latter form 

 illustrates the Micmac tendency, of which I shall later give several cases, to omit the 

 K or hard G sounds in pronunciation. Again, the late Michael Flinne, to whose 

 competent aid I owe so much in these studies, obtained it as SE-GWÂD-DÏK. 

 I have not, however, been able to obtain any meaning for the word; but I think it 

 is identical with the ESKWADËTC given by Rand as the Micmac name of a "place 

 near Miramichi," with the meaning THE LITTLE FISHING PLACE (Micmac- 

 English Dictionary, 181). In this word the final TC is the same as CH, which I take 

 to be a softened form of the locative K, and not a diminutive as Rand evidently 

 thought (page 377 earlier); the KWADË would be clearly equivalent to our familiar 

 root -KA'DI-(K), in its frequent form-KWA'DI-(K), already explained (page 377). 

 The possessive A is here condensed out, but is present as EE in the other forms cited. 

 The prefix ES- or S-, can be only, if Rand is right, the abbreviated NUMAACH, the 

 Micmac word for FISH, a root which seems to be abbreviated to 'MCH in 'MCH- 

 AGADICHK, the Micmac name for Sainte Anns in Cape Breton, (page 400, later). 

 Thus the full word would be NUMAÂCH-(Â)-I^'DI-CH, meaning literally FISH- 

 (THEIR)-OCCURRENCE-PLACE, presumably in description of good fishing 

 there. In this case the word would be exactly the same, though in greater degree of 

 condensation, as 'MCHAGADICHK, already mentioned. 



While this seems the most likely derivation of the name, in view of the available 

 data, it is not wholly satisfactory, especially as to the generalized idea of FISH instead 

 of some particular kinds; and I think it likely the prefix S or CH really stands for the 

 termination of the name of some particular fish. Most probable of these would be 

 CHEGAOO, the Micmac name for BASS, (Rand, First Reading Book, 53), which 

 does occur in this region, in which case the word would be equivalent in condensed 

 form to the CHEGAOO- WAÂKÀDE, or BASS-GROUND of Elliott River in Prince 

 Edward Island (below). It may possibly, however, contain the stem for words 

 meaning SHAD or YOUNG ALEWIVES. The subject must have further study, 

 but there seems no doubt that CHACODI belongs in the series of -ACADIE names. 



CHEGOLJACAD IE. The Micmac name, in much simplified form, of Toad 

 Brook, a very small branch of the Restigouche River on the Quebec side above the 

 Metapedia. It was given me by Father Pacifique in the form TJGÔLTJOEGATIG, 

 with the meaning TOAD'S PLACE. The latter part of the word -OEGATIG is the 

 precise equivalent of our-A-KA'DI-K, earlier explained (page 380), while the former 

 evidently involves an abbreviated form of EMKOKCHAJÏT, the Micmac name for 

 TOAD (Rand, First Reading Book, 43), the hard K sound being omitted, as so often 

 is the case in Micmac place-names. Thus the word in full would be EMKOKCHÀ- 

 JIT-A-KA'DI-K, meaning literally TOAD-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. 

 Father Pacifique tells me the name is descriptive for "there are many in summer." 



CHEGWACADIE. The Micmac name, in simplified form, of some place up 

 Elliott River, one of the three Rivers meeting at Charlottetown, in Prince Edward 

 Island, according to Rand's special list of Micmac names in the Library of 

 Wellesley College. It is there given as CHEGOWWAAkADE, with the 

 meaning BASS GROUND. The construction of the word seems perfectly clear, for 

 the latter part is evidently our familiar combination -A-KA'DI-(K), earlier considered 

 (page 380), while the former is as certainly the word CHEGAOO meaning BASS 

 (Rand, First Reading Book, 53). Thus the word in full would be CHEGAOO-A- 

 KA'DI-(K), meaning literally BASS-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). The 

 Bass in an important food fish formerly common in all this region. In response to 

 my inquiries, Mr. Thomas W. May, of the Land Office at Charlottetown, tells me 

 that the Bass is occasionally caught in the smelt nets at the Clyde, or Dog, River, 



