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missippano sokanunk (?1, it [a cloud] 

 rains laiu, Is. o, 0. Cf. musguppeg, a 

 tear. See -xijijiarn. 



*missippuskunnicheg, ii. the wrist, C. 

 For iiiiif^sij)sl;<ii>iiiilr}ii:g, the bone next 

 t(i (jciiningl the hand. Cf. iimssipsk. 



-missis, -musses. See iim-inisscs-oh. 



missishin, v. i. it touches. See mussinuin. 



*mississikkoshk, n. a shin (bone), C. 



missittipuk. See miisxitlij/uk, a neck. 



missiyeu. See m'tssl. 



missoliham, v. t. he announeesi, inake.s 

 pubHc (see }»(i.ss/.s.v( ); imperat. 2d — 1st 

 pers. sing. missnli<iiiiiili, tell me, Gen. 24, 

 23; with guominie (beforehand), he 

 jirophesies; pi. quosltde missnlihaiiuroii, 

 they prophesy, Num. 11, 27. Vbl. n. 

 ijuoshdemissohhamoonk, prophecy, Prov. 

 30, 1; 31, 1; with an. obj. (remote) -oli- 

 hniimi'u he announces to (him). 



missohquam. See mugit(iliquatii\jn'], an 

 ear of (dried) corn; mismnkquamin, a 

 (full) ear ni corn. 



misscounk. See nni/<g(]r»ink, a dry tree. 



*missuckeke (Narr. ), p\. -kn/niH-l;. bass. 

 K.W. [sw-kopiog. Stiles); strii.c-.l lias- 

 ( Labrax lineatus )? Peq. jn' sniKjklirnjr, 

 Stiles, 



inissugken[cD], missuken, v. i. he is 

 great, powerful, mighty, 1 Chr. 16, 25: 

 anue missuken onk neen, he is more pow- 

 erful ('mightier') than I, Mark 1, 7; 

 suppos. rmimiykemik. (q. v.). Vbl. n. 

 mhxiigkenmonk, greatness (in power, 

 importance, etc. , relatively ) , Esth. 10, 1 

 {missi'gkin-nedt,toa.hound;mis8ekin-)ifdl, 

 t(j increase, C. ). Froiu missi, with ap- 

 parently the formative of verbs of phys- 

 ical or inanimate growth {-kin); but, if 

 so, this verb could not ])roperly have 

 an animate suljject. 



[Aim. iii-iniyrijliii; je suis grand; 3d 

 pi'i's. iiifsnihir; suppos. mheghirek, but 

 niiMikSsS, il est gros, or mesegS. Cree 

 missMgiltu, he is large. Del. rneechgitiik, 

 the big, great one, Zeisb. Voc] 



missuhkauaii, missuhkomco. See )nii,s- 

 ^ahkoiii;,. 



missunkquamin, mus-, n. a (full) ear 

 (if corn; (il. -miinndsh, -iiiunash, -inin- 

 <:s],, Hcut. 23, 2o; (xen. 41, o, 7, 22. Cf. 

 )ninnu'(pt<tiniii. 



[Del. nil' sa ipiini, a corn ear, Zeisb.] 



missunum. See miissiiiani, he touches. 



mittam'w^s, -■wussis, -wossis, n. ( 1 ) a 

 woman, mulier, Deut. 21, 11; 28, 5ti; 

 Gen. 2, 22; 3, 2 (cf. .w/^d. feniina); (2) 

 a wife, uxor, Cien. 12, 14; Deut. 22, 

 14; 1 Cor. 7, Ifi; niumn-, my wife; 

 kuinm-, thy wife; Hin-miUamims-soh, his 

 wife, the wife of (him). Gen. 12, 12; 

 19, 26. Cf. wiisso, (she) is his wife. 



[Narr. miUamus; kommUlamus or ko- 

 H-ceiro, thy wife; nummiUcmnis or wulld- 

 giinii, my wife, R. W. Chip, ne-minde- 

 iiiDiiiiiiuli, my wife (Sch. ii, 458); minda- 

 ritdii', 'an old woman'. Bar. 26. Miami 

 )iietaiiiimh, woman; ne-ne-irnh, my wife, 

 Menom. mi'lanni, woman; naijon, my 

 wife.] 



mittamwussu, v. i. she is a wife; suppos. 

 niittitniiriisitit nnkalog, if she be the wife 

 of another, Jer. 3, 1; um-mlttannriissit, 

 -imssissii, he takes to wife, 2 Chr. 21, 6; 

 Gen. 25, 1. 



miyae. See mute. 



miyaeog. See miaeog. 



m'noot. See mauajt. 



mo, adv. 'soirietimes signifieth not'. El. 

 Gr. 21; mo teag, nothing. Is. 40, 17, 

 = monieag (Is. 41, 17), nialleag (Luke 

 22, 35). See matin. Negation appears 

 to be the primary signification of this 

 particle, or rather of its base, m' (q. v. ). 

 With the formative of the verb sub- 

 stantive {m-m, mo) it came to have the 

 force of an affirmation of past being 

 (fuit) by denial of present, and thus 

 su]iplied the preterit of the defective 

 verb of existence; ko, it was and con- 

 tinues to be; mo, it was and is not; phh, 

 it will be. (The limited ordefinite pres- 

 ent, 'is now', was marked by the affix 

 -ai for verbs of being, -ni or -i for verljs 

 of an, or inan, action. For the former 

 class, see El. Gr. 16.) Eliot some- 

 times combined mo with ko to form an 

 aorist {koh mo, monkO. See ko). For 

 the force of m' as a prefix, indeter- 

 minate ami impersonal, see m ' : iin 

 1110 iiiieiiinittuonk, there was a battle, 

 2 Sam. 2, 17; m6 wequai, there was 

 light, Gen. 1, 3; ken mo mittinneumin, 

 thou wast a servant, Deut. 5, 17; neg mo 

 neematog, these (who are dead) were 

 my brothers, Judg. 8, 19; mo iii/euaii, he 

 was made, etc., 1 Cor, 15, 45. -nio or 

 -iiiw, the characteristic of active in- 



