[GANONG] INDIAN PLACE-NOMENCLATURE 185 
I have no doubt, under the influence of the pronunciation KAGIBOUGUETTE 
used by theAcadians who were settling there at the time his survey was in progress. 
His plan being official, was naturally followed by Bonnor’s fine map of New Bruns- 
wick of 1820, which has KOUCHIBOUGUAC and KOUCHIBOUGUAC-SIS, while 
Lockwood’s map adopted these forms with a change in the latter to KOUCHI- 
BOUGUACIS (omitting the first S of the last syllable), thus establishing the forms 
which have been followed by all of the best maps, and in records, down to the present, 
making KOUCHIBOUGUAC and KOUCHIBOUGUACIS the standard and correct 
forms of the name. 
ANALYSIS OF THE Worp.—ÆEvery feature of the word implies an Indian origin. 
I have not myself attempted to obtain its aboriginal form from the Micmaes, but one 
of my most valued correspondents, the late Michael Flinne, teaeher of the Indian 
school at Eelground near Newcastle, obtained it from them for me as PEE-CHEE- 
BOO-GUAK. Furthermore Rand, in his Micmac-English Dictionary (188), gives it 
as PIJEBOOGWEK, though locating it as a “place in Richebueto”; but on the 
same page he corrects the mistake by describing PEJEBOOGWASES as a “place 
near Richebucto.” The close resemblance, amounting to identity, between these 
forms and those which occur in the earliest French and English records, make it 
clear that we have the aboriginal form of the name, which can best be expressed as 
PEJ-E-BOOG-WEK’. The early French forms differ from ours chiefly in their 
omission of the final locative K, a sound which the Indians commonly omit when 
using the name at the place itself, and which shows that Father Jumeau probably 
took down the name from the Indians while with them on the river. 
We turn now to consider the meaning of the word, and it is not difficult to find. 
Rand gives the clue in his Dictionary above mentioned by making this word identica! 
with the name for Sable River, Nova Scotia. He does not further notice Sable River 
in this Dictionary, but in his Reader (99), he gives its Micmac name as PIJEBOOG- 
WEK’ , meaning LONG RIVER. And this interpretation he eonfirms in the Dic- 
tionary itself by making PEJEBOOGWASES (i.e., KOUCHIBOUGUACIS) mean 
THE LITTLE LONG-FLOWING STREAM (op. cit. 188, and also 132). Armed 
with this information, it is easy to distinguish the roots of the word. The root PIJ, 
or PEJ, or PECH, is an inseparable prefix meaning LONG, as shown by the large 
number of words in which it occurs with this meaning in Rand’s Micmac-English 
Dictionary, 139, and his English-Micmac Dictionary, 160. Moreover, it occurs in at 
least two other aboriginal place names in these Provinces, in the same sense of 
LONG, namely PIJELOOASKEK and PIJOONEGUNUK, both discussed more 
fully in the following section. 
The second syllable of the word is obviously simply separative, for ease of 
pronounciation between the two roots. The second root BOOGWEK is clear. It 
is a very common termination in the aboriginal names of Acadian rivers, as this 
list, more fully discussed in the following section, will testify, viz., OKOBOOGWEK, 
NEMCHEEBOOGWEK, MOOLABOOGWEK, KIKCHEEBOOGWEK, AMASI- 
BOOGWEK, MOOSKUDOBOOGWEK, KESOOSKIBOOGWEK, APSIBOOG- 
WECHK, WINEBOOGWECHK. Now all of these rivers have one feature in 
common, namely, their lower courses are invariably tidal, while the termination 
BOOKWEK nowhere in these provinces, so far as I can find, applies to any stream 
whose whole course lies away from the tide. With this fact as a guide, we can 
analyze BOOGWEK into its components. Evidently the BOOG is identical with 
the root BOOK, meaning a bay or inlet (of salt water), and forming a component of 
numerous words later to be discussed in this series, such as Richebueto, Buctouche, 
Chebucto. Thus Rand gives PIJEBOOK, as meaning A LONG BAY OR INLET 
