NATICK-ENGLISH DICTIONARY 



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squa — continued. 



[NaiT. sfyudit's, pi. -suck, woman, 

 women; dimin. squAsese, a little girl 

 (sryi(f(H/iscs, Stilei?). Cree iskwdyoo. Del. 

 odifjiji'i'i, woman; och quelschitsch, girl, 

 Zeis!..] 

 *Squantam. ' ' They acknowledge a God 

 whii they call Sguaniam, but worship 

 him they do not." — Josselyn's Voy. 

 "The good god they call Tantum, and 

 their evil god, whom they fear will do 

 them hurt, they call Squantum." — Hig- 

 ginson's N. E. Plantation. The name 

 is clearly the contracted form of mus- 

 quantam, he is angry. " If it be but an 

 ordinary accident, a fall, etc., they will 

 say . . . musqudnlnm manit, God is 

 angry."— R. W. 109. 

 squashim, squoshim, a female quadru- 

 ped, Deut. 7, 14; adj. nquAshimwe, Lev. 

 4, 28, 32; 5, 6. Cf. nomposhiin, male 

 quadruped. 



[Xarr. squashim, R. W. Del. oclt- 

 quwhum, Zeisb. In the Abnaki, Ra.sles 

 says "the small animals (including 

 the otter, the marten, etc.) were dis- 

 tinguished by nanbikikS, male, and 

 skSekikS, female; the moose and both 

 species of deer by aianbe, male; herar, 

 female, and the lynx, 'lion' [panther], 

 hare, and some others by naiibessem, 

 male, and skSessem l = squAshim, El.], 

 female."] 

 squehtahwhau. See st^qultahwhau, he is 



left, remains of. 

 sqTii. See musqui, red, bloody. 

 *squnck (mod. skunk), Josselvn's Voy. 

 82, 85. 



[Abn. siyankS, bete puante. Chip. 

 (St Marys) slii kaug, (Gr. Trav. ) shegog. 

 Peq. ausounch, Stiles.] 

 squdntam, squout, squoant, n. a door, 

 a gate, .Julin 10, 9; 1 Cor. 16, 9; Gen. 

 21, 17 (usqin.nt, a d.M,r, C); pi. -ainash, 

 Acts 16, 2() ( "^/^/». .»/,„„(,.,/!, Job 38, 10). 

 Adj. and adv. -miiim:, the door of, or by 

 the door: imtch squontame kek-it, from 

 or out of the door of thy house. Josh. 

 2, 19. Probably from the root of sequn- 

 nau, to be left (see sequnau). Cf. Chip. 

 ishkwdti.dem, 'door', with iskkwdiithhi, 

 'he leaves it' — the opening left in 

 (building) the house. 



squdntam, etc.— continued. 



[Narr. fquauntdumuck, at the door, 

 K. "W, .51. Chip, ishkwdndem. Bar.; 

 (Sag.) squov (Jem, (St Marys) ish kiron 

 dnim, Sch.] 

 squdshim. See squashim. 

 *squtta (Narr.), fire, R. W. 47 {squitia, 

 a fire spark, Wood). Cf. nashqutteau; 

 ncolau. (Sansk. osha, actio urendi, 

 ardor; ush, urere. ) 



. [Abn. skStai, -tar, feu; skStaSio, il y 

 en a. Cree esk'oot&yoo, (there is) fire. 

 Muh. stauu<{?), Edw.] 

 *stoli, eshtoh (Muh.) , no, not, Edwards; 



eschta, Gallatin Voc. 

 *succotash.. See sohquitahham and cf. 



*msickquat(Mh, corn boiled whole. 

 *suckauanausuck (Narr.), n. pi. the 

 1 >lack shell.s. From sucki and andwsuck 

 (R. ^\.), shells, i. e. shell-fish. 

 *suckauliock (Narr.), 'black money'. 

 "They break out of the shell [of the 

 j)oquauhock] about half an inch of a 

 black part of it, of which they make 

 their suckmihock or blackmoney, which 

 is to them precious." — R. W. 104, 1,30. 

 From sucki, black, dark-colored, and 

 hogki, shell [cf. movjhackees. Wood, 

 from mwi, black, and hogki-ash (pi. )]. 

 *sucki (Narr.), black, dark colored, pur- 

 ple. V. adj. an. suckesu, he is black, a 

 black man. "They call a blackamoor 

 suckduUakunc, . . . for sucki is black, and 

 wautacone, one that wears clothes." — 

 R. W. 60. 



[Del. suckeii, v. adj. (it is I black, 

 Zeisb.] 

 stthkou, v. i. he spits, Mark 7, 3.5 (suh- 

 quinneal, 'spitting', C. ; but it is in the 

 form of the so-called infinitive, to spit: 

 nuli'eskduovs, I spit; nis-suke, I am mis- 

 chievous, spiteful (?), C). The pri- 

 mary meaning appears to be to eject, 

 discharge liquid; hence noh sdgket, noh 

 sdgketog, qui mingit. See scohq, saliva. 

 V. adj. an. suhkesu, he is a spitter, he 

 ejects water {sukkissu, -og, C. ; sicki.mi, 

 -og, R. AV., long clams, 'spitters'). 



[Abn. sesseks, crachat; sessegS, il 

 crache; nesesek8,sa.Uve; ne-seghi, mingo. 

 Del. ii'sls silk, spit, Zeisb.] 

 sukoshkodtaeu (?), adv. stooping, 

 crouching. Gen. 49, 9. 



