30 Contributions to English Lericography. 
Moose, (a word derived from the Algonkin-Lenape family of * 
languages; as, Narrag. moosquin, a fawn; moose, the skin of the 
red deer ; Miami, musuoh or mohsokeh, a deer ; Ulinois, mousoah, 
a deer ;) an animal of the genus Cervus. 
Mush, (according to Dr. Webster from Germ. mus, pap; per- 
haps a corruption of the _—— word maize ;) the meal of maize 
boiled in water. 
Netop, (Narraganset, netop, a friend ;) a friend or crony, said 
by Dr. Pickering to be used ' some of the interior towns in Mas- 
sachusetts. 
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* What cheares, nétop, is the general salutation of all the Eng- 
lish towards them, [the Indians. ]”—Roger Williams, 1643. 
Papoose, (Massachusetts, pappouse ; manag. -tstad Mohican, 
papoose ;) an Indian child. 
Potato, (Amer. Ind. batatas ;) a plant and esculent root, of the 
genus Convolvulus, a native of America. 
Powwow, (Massachusetts, powwow ; Narrag. meine; - an In- 
dian priest, exercising also the offices of physician and conjurer. 
— Quahaug, (thought by Dr. Webster to be an Amer. Ind. word ;) 
a species of clam. 
Sachem, (a word derived from the Massachusetts Indians, but 
found in many of the languages of the Algonkin-Lenape class ; 
as Knistinaux, okemow ; Chippeway, ogima or okimau; Ottawa, 
okemah ; Algonkin, okimaw; Abenaki, sangman; Etchemin, 
sockum ; Massachusetts, sachem or sagamore; Narraganset, sd- 
chim ; Delaware, sakima ; Shawno, okema; Menomeni, okomow ;) 
an Indian chief or prince. 3 
Sagamore, (merely another form of the word sachem, which 
see ;) according to Dr. Dwight, an inferior sachem, but probably 
synonymous with sachem. 
Sagoin, (probably an American Indian word ;) an animal of 
the P emg Simia. * 
amp, (Massachusetts, nasampe ; Narraganset, nasaump ; see 
the quotation from Roger Williams below ;) maize boiled with 
milk. 
“ Nasaump, a kind of meale pottage, unpartch’d. From this 
the English call their samp, which is the Indian corne, beaten 
and boild, and eaten hot or cold, with milke or butter, which are 
mercies beyond the Natives plaine water, and which isa dish 
exceedingly wholesome for the English bodies.” —Roger Wil- 
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