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Tracadiegash. 



The name of a Point and Pond on the northwest coast of Bay Chaleur in Quebec. 

 It is interpretated by Rand {First Reading Book, 101), and also by Father Pacifique 

 (in letters to me) as TULUGADEGACHK, a diminutive of TRACADIE, making 

 it mean LITTLE CAMPING GROUND, or LITTLE SETTLEMENT. This 

 may possibly be correct, but it is difificult on this explanation to interpret the G, 

 which should not be there, while, on the other hand, the most ancient uses of the 

 name on the maps (e.g. TRAGUARIQUECHE on I'Hermitte's map of 1724), implies 

 a different origin, as will later be considered. 



E. A list of aboriginal place-names which may involve the suffix root 

 -ACAD IE, -QUODDY, -KONTE, but as to which the 

 evidence is uncertain. 



ASWAGUSCAWADIC. Name of a branch of the Mattawamkeag, according 

 to Hubbard {Woods and Lakes of Maine, 195) whose brief discussion is very in- 

 conclusive. 



KILMAQUAC. The Passamaquoddy name for the Village of St. Croix, in 

 York County, New Brunswick, meaning EEL WORKS {these Transactions, II, 1896, 

 ii, 268), The word may be an abbreviation of KILMAQUATIK, meaning EEL 

 TRAP-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. 



MENHA WADIK. Passamaquoddy name for Letang, as given me, in the form 

 MEN-HA-WA'-DIK, by one of that tribe {these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 245). 



MENSKWAK. The Micmac name of Chester, Nova Scotia, according to 

 Rand {Micmac-English Dictionary, 185), who gives it as MENSKWAK. The 

 termination suggests an abbreviated WÂKADI. But the name is given somewhat 

 differently in the First Reading Book, 86. 



MEROUASCADI. Name applied on Bellin's map of 1744 to Cross Island 

 near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. 



OOWCHAADOOCH. Micmac name for the mouth of the Margaree River 

 in Cape Breton, called on old maps OWCHADIE, and meaning WHERE THEY 

 GET IT (the red ochre), according to Rand {First Reading Book, 94). 



POKA TEKA TEK. The Maliseet name for the Sherwood Lakes, on the West 

 Branch of the Musquash River in the southwestern part of New Brunswick, according 

 to Chamberlain's Maliseet Vocabulary, 60, which gives the word, without meaning, 

 as PO'-KA-TE-KA'-TËK. I have as yet no clue to its meaning, and hence to the 

 identity of the first root POK, though the latter part seems to involve the root 

 -A-KA'DI-K. 



PSISCONTIC. Given by Hubbard {Woods and Lakes of Maine, 210), as the 

 name of Brassua Lake, near Moosehead Lake, with the meaning, which he queries, 

 HANDIEST PLACE TO BUILD CANOES. 



QUIDDY. Name of a Brook near Martins Head on the coast of New Bruns- 

 wick. It appears thus in early records with nothing to give clue as to a prefix. 



SLUGUNDY. Name of a Fall on the Mattawamkeag, and rapids elsewhere 

 {these Transactions, XII. 1906, ii,49). MAGUNDYo^. cit. 31, is probably of different 

 origin. 



TALALAGODISSIK. The Penobscot name for Websters Island, in the 

 Penobscot above Bangor, according to Greenleaf's list of 1823 {Moses Greenleaf, 

 Maine's First Mapmaker, 121). He defines it as PAINTING PLACE FOR 

 SQUAWS. The part TAL-AGODI, bears a resemblance to TALAKADI, original 

 form of TRACADIE, the termination involving the diminutive SIS. 



