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posekinau, -num — cijntinued. 



wlien liuryiiig, lie who buries, and 

 (pa?s. j>!irt. ) liurieil. Vbl. n. act. pow- 

 kindonk, a Ijurying; pass. -niUedonk, a 

 being-buried, burial, Matt. 26, 12. Adj. 

 and adv.: posekhiiUude ohke, a burying 

 place, Gen. 23, 4 (nup-pmsukin, I bury, 

 C. ). [From poskinau, he strips naked, 

 makes bare (?), or the derivative 

 m'pusk {nittppusk), the back, 'he places 

 or is laid on his back' (?).] 



[Narr. posakunnamun, to bury, R. W. 

 Abn. 7>e-p8skenan, je I'interre.] 



poske, adj . naked : nup-poske, I naked, Job 

 1,21; ndv.jjoskeu. Adj. an. (v. i.act.), 

 poskissu, he is naked, Ex. 32, 35; suppos. 

 part. pi. poskissi{ni)tcheg, the naked, 

 2 Chr. 28, 5; Ezek. 18, 7. Cans, pos- 

 kissiheau, he makes (him) naked, Ex. 

 32, 25; 2 Chr. 28, 19; and, with sh 

 privative, up-posqushdhed-uh , they make 

 (him) go naked, hurtfuUy, Job 24, 10. 

 V. i. inan. subj. poskohteau; with the 

 aspirated sibilant (privative), poshkoh- 

 leau, it is naked, Job 26, 6. Cf. mup- 

 pusk. 



poskinum, v. t. inan. he bares ( it) , makes 

 bare or naked: jioskinum wuhpit, he 

 makes bare his arm. Is. 52, 10. An. pos- 

 kinau, he makes (him) naked, bares 

 (him) : nup-poskin, I strip (him) naked, 

 Hos. 2, 3. Imperat. pof:kmusli kehqiiau, 

 uncover thy thigh. Is. 47, 2. 



poskissu, V. i. he is naked: nup-ponkis 

 I am naked, i. e. by my own act 

 (this is the intransitive active form, or 

 'adj. an.' of Eliot; seeposke). Imperat. 

 poskis kuhkont, make bare thy head. Is. 

 47, 2; pi. 2^oskissegk, make yourselves 

 bare. Is. 32, 11. Vbl. n. poskisseuotik, 

 nakedness, Rom. 8, 35; Ex. 20, 26. 



[Narr. nip-pdskiss, I am naked; paus- 

 kesu, naked. Abn. ne-paskenaii, 'je le 

 mets a nud', je le depouille.] 



posksin, v. i. he lies down naked, 1 Sam. 

 19, 24. 



pdtab, a whale. See pcotii.op. 



pdtantam. See pcotau. 



*powwaw (Narr.), 'a priest', R. W. 

 See jiiniiirni. 



poochenau, n. the bosom, the breast: 

 up-poochenaout, in his bosom, Lam. 2, 12 

 (up-pmcltinau, hosoai, C.). From poh- 

 shinde, divided in two (?). 



poahpcohquttog', n. pi. 'quails', Ps. 105, 

 40. See clirodimirdor/ ; palipahk.'^has; 

 *paiipock. (Cf. Cree pi'i-patdyoo, it is 

 spotted; chd-chdehagoa; it is striped, 

 Howse 73. ) 



pookeu, v. i.. is used by Eliot to translate 

 ' he is puffed up ' (Or. (pixjioi); pl.pcoke- 

 U'og, they are puffed up, 1 Cor. 4, 18; sup- 

 pos. pookit, when he is puffed up. Col. 

 2, 18; pi. neg pookecheg, they who are, 

 etc., 1 Cor. 4, 19 {6i itKpvOiocoi.tsvoi). 

 Caus. an.pmkhuwdhuau, it puffeth(him) 

 up, 1 Cor. 8, 1. Cf. piikit, smoke, which 

 is perhaps identical with the suppos. 

 pookit. vp-pookmnk (kehtoh) 'the swell- 

 ing (of the sea)', Mass. Ps., Ps. 46, 3. 



poonampau, -pamau, he looks away 



from (him), Is. 22, 4. From -and 



wompu, he looks. 



pcopootauonk, vbl. n. (continued) blow- 

 ing, a blast of air, Ex. 15, 8 (for 'nees- 

 ings', Job41, 18). See paitaw, he blows. 



poosampu, pos-, v. t. he looks in or into 

 (it), John 20, 5, 11; 1 Sam. 6, 19. See 

 voihpii. 



pcDsu-og' kuhtcDnogqut, ' they entered 

 into a shij)', John 6, 17 (pret. pmsupa- 

 neg, Mass. Ps. ). 



[Abn. pSsS, he emljarks. Chip, hosi, 

 Bar.] 



pODtaop, pcDtab, potab, n. a whale, 

 Gen. 1, 21; Job 7, 12; Matt 12, 40. From 

 pa)tau (he blows) l-pog (water)?]. 



[Narr. poloj). Peq. podumhaug, pu- 

 dumbaug, Stiles. Abn. pSdebe (i. e. 

 p8da8-'bi). Del. 'mhiachk, Zeisb.] 



pCDtau, V. i. he blows, breathes strongly. 

 (Not used in this form by Eliot, who 

 has instead the transitive pmtantam. ) 

 T. inan. pojlaiitam, he blows (it) or upon 

 (it). Imperat. pcotantash, Ezek. 37, 9; 

 pi. -amcok, blow ye upon (it), Cant. 4, 

 16. Freq. pcopaAau, he continues blow- 

 ing; part, noli paopa>tauont(og), he who 

 bloweth, Is. 54, 16. Cf. poukeu; pmpoo- 

 iauonk; pcotoemo). 



[Narr. potduntash, blow the tire. 

 Cree pootdlum, he bloweth (it). Abn. 

 ne-p8daSe, je souffle le feu; pSdaSaiigan, 

 soufflet a feu {popcopcolauimn&nmk, bel- 

 lows, C. ); ne-p^iaSaiimaii, je souffle 

 contre lui.] 



pcDthonsli, -ansh, n. a 'pitcher', vessel 

 for carrying water, Gen. 24, 15, 20; 



