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KOPSKWEDUMOOACADIE. The Micmac name for Geddes Lake, some 

 place in Nova Scotia which I have not as yet, despite much search and inquiry, been 

 able to identify. The name is given by Rand in the form KOPSKWEDUM- 

 OOAKÀDE, meaning LAMPER-EEL-GROUND {First Reading Book, 89). The 

 construction of the word is perfectly clear, for the latter part represents our familiar 

 roots Â-KA'DI-(K), earlier explained (page 380), while KOPSKWÉDÛM plural 

 OOK, is the Micmac name for the LAMPER-EEL, a well-known fish of this region 

 (op. cit. 53), the plural form expressed by 00, being used. Thus the name in full 

 would be KOPSKWËDÙMOO-Â-KA'DI-(K), meaning literally LAMPER EELS- 

 THEIR-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). 



KWEEMOA CAD IE. The Micmac name for a small lake near Canso, in eastern 

 Nova Scotia, according to Rand, who gives the word as KWËMOOAKADE, meaning 

 LOON-LAND [Micmac- English Dictionary, 184). The identity of the Lake is not 

 evident, especially as the lakes that are favourites with the loons are innumerable in 

 Nova Scotia; but the construction of the name is perfectly obvious. The termin- 

 ation is clearly our familiar combination -A-KA'DI-(K), already explained (page 380), 

 while the first part involves the Micmac name for LOON, viz., KWEMOO {op. cit. 

 84), making the word in full KVVEMOO-A-KA'DI-(K), meaning LOON-THEIR- 

 OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). 



Apparently an alternative for this name is ANESKAWA-KUSPEM, for thus 

 Rand gives it elsewhere in his Dictionary, 180. The part KUSPEM is the Micmac 

 word for LAKE, and I believe the ANESKAWÂ involves a root meaning NESTING- 

 PLACE, as will be shown later in this series. Also, the word KWEMOO occurs with 

 a different termination in the names for Spry Harbour and Popes Harbour, both 

 places on the southeast coast of Nova Scotia {Dictionary cited, 184), though the name 

 for the latter is differently explained in Rand's First Reading Book, 96. 



KWESOGWADIK. The Maliseet Indian name for Lower Musquash Island 

 on the Saint John River at the mouth of the Washademoak in New Brunswick. 

 It was given me by one of my best Maliseet informants in the form QLTES-0-GWA'- 

 DIK (as written in my notes). The construction of the word seems clear, for the 

 latter part represents evidently our familiar combination,- KWA'DI-K, meaning 

 OCCURRENCE-PLACE (page 377), while the first part contains, I believe, the 

 Indian name for MUSKRAT or MUSQUASH, which is KEW-US (Barratt, The 

 Indian of New England, 12) or KAI-U'-HUS (Chamberlain, Maliseet Vocabulary, Zi) 

 in Maliseet, and KEEWËSOO in Micmac (Rand, First Reading Book, 43). That it 

 is the Micmac rather than the Maliseet form which is involved in the word seems 

 implied by the presence of the 00 sound (which has displaced the possessive A), 

 before the -GWADIK. Thus the word in full would be KEEWÈSOO-(A)-KWA'DI-K, 

 meaning literally MUSKRAT-(THEIR)-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. Such an inter- 

 pretation fits perfectly with the same prominent feature of the place that is expressed 

 in its English name, though whether this has been given independently, or is a 

 translation of the Indian name is not clear. Further, the Island consists of a border 

 of intervale almost surrounding a marsh-bordered lagoon, which is just such a place 

 as the Muskrat likes best. 



Were it not for the strong confirmatory evidence supplied by the use of the name 

 Musquash Island for the place, we might be doubtful whether the word should not 

 be connected with KÛ-WËS', meaning the MALLARD DUCK (Chamberlain, op. 

 cit. 35), especially as the place is as favourable to Ducks as to Muskrats. But the 

 probabilities are all in favour of the interpretation above given. 



MAKWANKADIK. The Passamaquoddy name for Rocky Point, in the 

 northwestern angle of Lake Utopia in southwestern New Brunswick, as given me 

 by Louis Francis, an Indian resident near the lake, in the form MOQUANKA'DIK, 



