1890.] [Gatschet. 



REMARKS ON SINGLE TERMS. 



The ending -bauth occurs so frequently that we may have to consider it 

 as a suffix used in the derivation of substantives ; thus we have, e. g., izzo- 

 bauth blood, ersh-bauth catching fish, mushabauth oakum, tow. 



emaraoose woman, eraamoset child, girl, resemble strongly the follow- 

 ing Algonkin terms : amemens child in Lenape (Barton), amosens 

 daughter in Virginian (Strachey, Vocab. , p. 183). Ama'ma is mother in. 

 the Greenland Inuit. 



The sound I occurs but four times in the words which have come to our 

 notice : adolthtek, lathun, messiliget-hook, nadalahet. In view of the 

 negligent handwriting in which all of these vocabularies have reached us, 

 it is permitted to doubt its existence in the language. 



menome dogberries is a derivative of manus berries, mamoose whortle- 

 berries, Rob., is perhaps misspelt for manoose. Cf. min grain, fruit, 

 berry, in all Eastern Algonkin dialects. 



ozeru, ozrook, ice; E. Petitot renders the Montagnais (Tinne*) ezoge 

 by "gele"e blanche" (frost), t'en-zure by "glace vive." The resem- 

 blance with the Beothuk word seems only fortuitous. 



poopusraut fish is identical with bobboosoret codfish (or bacalaos, 

 Mscr.). 



pug-a-zoa eating ; the latter probably misspelt for beating. 



stioeena thumb, CM., is misspelling of itweena, which means thigh, not 

 thumb. 



The new ethnologic and linguistic facts embodied in this "Third Arti- 

 cle " do not alter in the least the general results which I deduced from 

 my two previous articles and specified in "Proceedings" of 1886, pp. 426 

 to 428. On the contrary, they corroborate them intrinsically and would 

 almost by themselves be sufficient to prove that the Beothuk race and 

 language were entirely sui generis. By the list contained in this "Third 

 Article" the number of Beothuk vocables known to us is brought up to 

 four hundred and eighty, which is much more than we know of the ma- 

 jority of other American languages and dialects. 



The violent hatred and contempt which the Beothuks nourished against 

 all the races in their vicinity seems to testify by itself to a radical difference 

 between these and the Algonkin tribes. The fact that we know of no other 

 homes of the Beothuk people than Newfoundland, does not entitle us to con 

 jecture, that they were once driven from the mainland opposite and settled 

 as refugees upon the shores of that vast island. It is more probable that 

 this race anciently inhabited a part of the mainland simultaneously with 

 the island, which would presuppose that the Beothuks were then more 

 populous than in the historic period. Numerous causes may account for 

 the fact that we do not notice them elsewhere since the beginning of 

 the sixteenth century : fragmentary condition of our historic knowledge, 



