LANGUAGE OF THE MISSISSAGUAS OF SCUGOG. 213 



THE LANGUA.GE OF THE MISSISSAGUAS OF 



SCUGOG. [Abstract] 



BY A. F. Chamberlain, M.A. 



In the course of a visit paid to the Indians of Scugog in August, 

 1888, the writer was enabled to collect a vocabulaiy of some 700 

 words, besides personal and place names. The vocabulary shows the- 

 Mississagua to be almost pure Ojebway, there being, however, several 

 points in which it seems to possess dialectic peculiarities, such as the 

 use (more fi-equent than in Ojebway) of the o — -so often elided or 

 absent in other Algonkin dialects, as recorded by travellers ; it is 

 very difficult to catch this o-sound, and it is perhaps more often 

 indistinctly sounded than omitted altogether. A few words also- 

 seem peculiarly Mississagua and to differ from those in use by othei* 

 Ojebway tribes. The language which the Mississagua most closely, 

 resembles is that of the Algonkins of the Lake of the Two Mountains 

 as recorded by Cuoq (Lexique Algonquin, 1886). The following 

 words are not to be found in Wilson's and Baraga's Dictionaries, 

 or different words are given : 



Ash (Black) wisddjak. Hell-cliver shingibls. 



Bald-headed Eagle . . . . amiglgikwani. Heron moshk6osL 



Bark-dish (for win- "l 1 7 ., i • Iron-wood mdneh^ 



nowing rice. j -^ Landing (for boats) kajAikoin. 



Bulrush andkanashlc. ^japle (hard) anindtik. 



Bui-dock omkatdhmowj, .< (g^ft) chhjimanhh. 



(sticky thing). 



Chisel rufikon (horn). 



Meat-bird cjioingwish. 



• 7-. , Milky Way namehpakwek- 



Chickadee gidji koneM. hikamitowut. 



Chipmunk ogwingwis. (the sturgeon making rili/ water). 



Clam dssenit. Mat (for drying rice on) . . op6djlgan. 



Currant (wild black) .... amlkowomin. Mudturtle itiishlka. 



Ear-tish (of Lake Huron) . . otdwgaraek. Moth (night-flying) nltos. 



Fox -bird dnuk. Parched rice kaivplsigan. 



Hemlock kdkam'ish. Sarsaparilla okddak (leg-root. ) 



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