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meaning DWELLING PLACE, formed from the verb ETÛLAGÀDUM, meaning 

 TO DWELL. 



Thus the name cannot belong directly with those involving the ordinary term 

 -ACADIE, but the possibility is not excluded that ultimately or remotely the two 

 roots may have a common origin. Rand seems to have thought that the first part 

 of ETLOGADÛM involves a root referring to camp fires (compare Micniac-English 

 Dictionary, 55), in which case the latter part ÛGÀDUM may involve the same 

 elements as -ACADIE, as earlier analyzed (page 380). 



Curiously enough this explanation here given for TRACADIE was hit upon by 

 Father Vetromile, though in conjunction with other errors, in his usually very inac- 

 curate and untrustworthy work, Th" Abenakis; for on page 45 he says "We have yet 

 in Nova Scotia a place called Tracadie, which must be the Indian word tedlacadem, 

 or t'dlacadem, where we dwell." I suspect that Father Vetromile obtained the 

 basis of this explanation in some way from Rand. 



What now as to the appropriateness of the name to the four Tracadies in 

 particular ? What differentiates those places from the innumerable other camp- 

 grounds of the Indians throughout the Provinces ? All four have this in common, 

 that they are attractive places lying each at the focus of important lines of travel. 

 The New Brunswick Tracadie, which I know personally, was a place of favoured 

 Indian resort, as the paper in Acadiensis earlier cited fully shows; and I have every 

 confidence that the same will be found true for the others. I take it these were 

 central places where the wandering bands were especially prone to camp together 

 for considerable periods, for companionship, councils, and the arrangement of 

 matters of importance to the tribe. There is probably an equivalent in the Maliseet 

 KLUNQUADIK (page 396), though possibly not; and I think essentially the same 

 idea is involved in ETLIA4LATS the original of our modern GRIMROSSon the lower 

 Saint John River, as will later be shown. 



Other Explanations of the Name. Of these I have found two. Mr. 

 Flinne, above mentioned, obtained from his Micmacs the meaning WEDGE 

 SHAPED, as I did myself independently, from a Miramichi Micmac, and this was 

 the basis'of that interpretation in these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 277. Evidently 

 our informants connected TULAKADIK with TÛLÂKÛN meaning A WEDGE 

 (Rand, English- Micmac Dictionary, 278), and as evidently the interpretation rests 

 only upon a purely accidental resemblance of roots. The second explanation is 

 that of an eminent authority, Trumbull, who in his fine work on Algonkin names 

 already mentioned (page 391), points out that in Abenaki there are two roots which 

 may be confused with -KANTI, the Abenaki equivalent of -ACADIE, viz., KA8DI, 

 meaning LODGING PLACE, and AK8DÊ meaning UP STREAM; and he suggests 

 that the latter, referring to fishing places on tidal rivers and not Rand's TULLOCK- 

 KADDY, may have given origin to our Tracadie. But his root AK8DÉ in this 

 sense seems wholly unknown in Micmac, and in any case his mere guess at an explan- 

 ation could not stand in face of the evidence pointing to the explanation we have 

 given. It is, however, possible that his root KA8DI, meaning LODGING PLACE 

 is involved in our ETLÛGADOM. Certainly it is connected with another important 

 Acadian place-name, viz., WIGUDI, the name for the Indian settlement at St. John, 

 taken by Champlain and Lescarbot for the name of the River Saint John itself 

 {these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 269; and Grant and Biggar's edition of Lescarbot's 

 History of New France, Champlain Society, III, 84). But to this latter word I 

 shall return later in this series. 



Summary. The name TRACADIE is a corruption of the Micmac TULUKA- 

 DIK, which means DWELLING PLACE, in description, probably, of especially 

 important central Indian camp grounds. 



