THE NAME " ACADIA." 3 



or Cad'ie^ and that it is equivalent to "region, field, ground, land, or 

 place ; " but that when joined to an adjective, or to a noun with the 

 force of an adjective, it denotes that the place referred to is the 

 appropriate or special place of the object expressed by the noun or 

 noun-adjective. Now, in Micmac, adjectives of this kind are formed 

 by suffixing "a" or "wa" to the noun. Thus, in the word before 

 quoted, Segubbun is a ground-nut ; Segubbiina, of or relating to ground- 

 nuts ; and Segubbuna-kaddy is the place or region of ground-nuts, or 

 the place in which these are to be found in abundance. The following 

 may be given as examples of actual Indian names formed in this 

 way : — 



Soona-Kaddy [Simacadie] — Place of cranberries. 



Kata-Kaddy — Eel-ground. 



Tulluk-Kaddy (Tracadie) — Probably place of residence ; dwelling- 

 place. 



Skudakumoochwa-Kaddy — Ghost or spirit land — is the somewhat 

 difficult name of a large island in the Bras d'Or Lake, once used as 

 a burial-ground. 



Buna-Kaddy (Bunacadie or Benacadie) — Is the place of bringing 

 forth ; a place resorted to by moose at the calving-time. 



Segonnuma-Kaddy — Place of Gaspereaux, Gaspereau or Alewife 

 River. 



According to Mr Rand, Quodiah, or Codmh^ is merely a modification 

 of Kaddy in the language of the Maliceets, and replacing the other 

 form in certain compounds. Thus : 



Nooda-Ktcoddy (Noodiquoddy or "Winchelsea Harbour) — Is place 

 of seals, or, more literally, place of seal-hunting. 



Kookejoo-Kwoddy — Giant-land, or land of giants. 



Boonamoo-Kwoddy — Tom-cod ground ; and, lastly, — 



Pestumoo-Kwoddy — Pollock-ground ; which brings us back to 

 Passamaquoddy, and to the learned derivation of the Commissioners, 

 who, as unsuccessful in etymology as in the just settlement of the 

 boundary, have merely changed the meaning of the first component 

 of the word into a general term for fish, and have taken kwoddy for 

 the equivalent of pollock, very likely because its sound resembled 

 that of cod, or because some Maliceet Indian had rendered the name 

 into his imperfect English by the words " Pollock fish here." 



So much for the etymology of Cadle or Quoddy ; now as to its applica- 

 tion to the large region known as Acadia. Two explanations may be 

 given of this. First, the name may be a mere alteration, as suggested 

 by the Commissioners, of that of tlie bay which lay at the western 



