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gives it as A ROUGH STREAM (Reader, 84), or as ROUGH EVIL-FLOWING 
(Micmac-English Dictionary, 192), while he gives the very same word as a verb 
which signifies TO FLOW ROUGHLY (English-Micmac Dictionary, 113). With 
this general meaning as a guide it is easy to separate and define the roots of the 
word, which are as follows. The prefix WIN signifies ROUGH, and is thus found 
in a great many Micmac words, as shown in Rand’s English-Micmac Dictionary under 
the words “rough,” “coarse,” “crags.” Furthermore, the word carries the meaning 
of rough in a disagreeable sense, even a malevolent sense, as witness its use in words 
for “accursed,” and words connected with swearing. Indeed, in his Micmac-English 
Dictionary, (172) Rand gives WIN as a prefix meaning EVIL, FOUL, DEFORMED, 
which helps to explain the ROUGH EVIL-FLOWING of his explanation above 
given of the meaning of this name. The word carries, I think, something of the 
meaning expressed by the Anglo-Saxon in his favorite swear word, and could be 
rendered by DAMNED ROUGH, or, more elegantly, INFERNALLY ROUGH, 
though there is not enough of this implication to justify its incorporation into a 
usable explanation of the meaning of the word. The idea of malevolence in the root 
is also brought out in another way by my Micmac’s definition VERY CROSS RIVER 
above mentioned. The prefix WIN occurs also with a similar meaning in other 
Acadian place names, notably W JNAMKEAK’, A ROUGH SANDY BANK, the 
name for St. Simon’s Inlet (Reader, 99), and WINEBOOGW ECHK’, ROUGHLY- 
FLOWING, discussed below on page 186. 
Passing to the remainder of the word, the root PEGIT or BEGIT, signifies 
TO FLOW, as shown in a number of combinations given by Rand in his English- 
Micmac Die ,113. Thus Rand here gives WI INPEGITK, meaning TO FLOW 
ROUGHLY, and the same root occurs obviously in the BEG oF MAD ABEGEAK’, 
the original of Mat tapedia, meaning ROUGHLY-FLOWING (Rand, Reader, 93) ana 
of KESK ABEGEACHK’, the original of Cascapedia, meaning WIDE-FLOWING 
(op. cit. 84), and of PEDABEGEAK, the original of Patapedia. These words, by 
the way, will be more fully discussed as to their remaining roots, in a later number 
of this series. 
Finally as to the termination JOOIK, that also is plain. It is a common suffix 
conveying the meaning of POURING or STREAMING. Thus Rand gives PEMI- 
JOOIK as meaning IT POURS ALONG (Micmac-English Dictionary, 134), with 
exactly the same word (PEMIJOOIK’) meaning TO STREAM (English-Micmac 
Dictionary, 255); and he gives ETLIJOOIK’ as an intransitive verb meaning TO 
POUR (op. cit. 202). The root occurs also in several other Acadian place names; 
thus WEIJOOIK, meaning FLOWING WILDLY, the name for Sheet Harbour 
(Rand, Reader, 99), COOLPIJOOIK, meaning FLOWING CONCEALED, the name 
for Port Piswick (op. cit. 96 and 98, and Micmac-English Dictionary, 183), and 
KEGULUGOJOOITK’, meaning THE WATER TUMBLES AND DASHES IN 
ALL DIRECTIONS, the name for Andrews Brook (op. cit. 83; compare also English- 
Micmac Dictionary, 113). Furthermore, the word contains also the significance of 
TO BOIL, for Rand gives this very name we are considering, viz. , WINPEGIJOOIK’ 
as meaning a BOILING SPRING (English-Micmac Dictionary, '40). In all of there 
cases the word has the significance of pouring or streaming or dashing in swift 
motion, thus giving to the root PEGIT, when associated therewith in the form 
PEGITJOOIK, or PEGIJOOIK, the meaning FLOWS DASHING ALONG, an 
idea expressed by our English word TORRENT. 
Thus the three roots of this word would be WIN- PEGIT- JOOIK, meaning 
literally ROUGHLY-FLOWS-DASHING. There is no question whatever, I believe, 
as to the correctness of this explanation. 
