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TULAKADIK and TELAKADIK, with the Tracadie of Prince Edward Island. 

 To the testimony of form is added that of meaning, indicated below, leaving no doubt 

 at all as to the identity of this name with that of the three Tracadie's. 



Analysis of the Word. The collective data seem to point to an identity of 

 both form and meaning in the case of all four of the Tracadies, reckoning TULUGA- 

 DÏK as one of them. The name is obviously Micmac, — Lescarbot, indeed, in the 

 place above cited, giving it among Indian names. Turning to Rand, our first 

 authority, we find that, he gives for TULÛGADÏK, the meaning CAMPING 

 GROUND {First Reading Book, 88,101), whilein his Micmac-English Dictionary, 190 

 he makes it mean THE INHABITED PLACE or SETTLEMENT. I have myself 

 obtained the word from a Micmac chief at Bathurst, New Brunswick, as TLA'-KA- 

 DIK (in the exact form of my notes), while the late Michael Flinne, teacher of the 

 Indian school at Eelground above Newcastle, New Brunswick, obtained it for me as 

 TL-A-GA-TE, TLAGTI, and T'LA'-K-DIK. Father Pacifique writes it TLA- 

 GATIG. It must be remembered, however, that with places so long settled as the 

 three Tracadies, the present Indian pronunciation of the names must be greatly 

 influenced by that of the whites, if, indeed, they have not wholly lost their own 

 aboriginal form of the name. 



The resemblance of TRACADIE to so many other names that involve the 

 termination -ACADIE leads naturally to the inference that TRACADIE also 

 involves our familiar combination -A-KA'DI-, of the many names in this paper. 

 This was apparently at one time the view of Rand, who is quoted by Dawson (in 

 his Acadian Geology, 2nd edition, 3) as authority for a derivation from TULLUCK- 

 KADDY, meaning PLACE OF RESIDENCE; DWELLING PLACE; but the 

 derivation is qualified by a "probably," and moreover does not reappear in any of 

 Rand's own works, seeming to show that he later abandoned this view. Again, ' 

 Father Pacifique, our most competent present authority upon the Micmac tongue, 

 seems to hold this opinion, for in a recent letter to me, he includes TRACADIE 

 in a list of names involving the root -A-KA'DI-K (his -EGATIG), and adds, — 



"this is the very root with etli, there any special settlement is etlagatig or 



tetlagatig, Tracadie." Compare also page 443 later. 



Nevertheless it seems to me very clear that there is no connection, at least no 

 direct connection, between the -ACADIE of TRACADIE and the -ACADIE of the 

 other names of this paper, the resemblance being a case of familiarization to identical 

 form of two somewhat similar roots. First, the idea involved in TRACADIE, as a 

 SETTLEMENT or DWELLING PLACE, does not seem consistent with the idea 

 expressed by the genuine -ACADIE names, viz., that of distinctive occurrence of 

 some special natural object. Second, the termination in all of Rand's works for this 

 name, viz., UGÀDIK and -AKADIK, is one that he never uses for the genuine 

 -ACADIE names, which he has always -AAKADE, AGWODE, or something 

 similar, seeming to show that he did not consider them the same termination. Third, 

 and most important, taking the meaning of TRACADIE upon which Rand and 

 Father Pacifique agree, viz., SETTLEMENT, RESIDENCE, DWELLING PLACE, 

 we find that there is a Micmac verb, which means TO DWELL, TO LODGE, TO 

 RESIDE (Rand, English- Micmac Dictionary, 94, 160, 218), viz., ETLUGADCM, 

 which is so like TULUGADIK, or TLAKADIK that we can hardly question the 

 identity of the two words. Omitting the faintly sounded preliminary vowel, and 

 converting the final verbal ending UM into a locative -IK, all very slight and usual 

 changes, the two words become identical. This conclusion is in perfect harmony 

 with all of the data taken collectively, and there would seem therefore to be no 

 doubt that our place-name TRACADIE is simply a locative noun TOLUKADIK 



