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tohsii, tohsheu, adj. or, as Eliot classes 

 it, a '(listrihiitive pronoun', signifying 

 li(i\v inuoh: "pi. tohsuog, tohsvnmli, 

 how many", El. Gr. 8. Elsewhere 

 ( p. 14) he givea "tohm, or tahshe, which 

 is varied [in the pi.] tohsuog, iohsuash, 

 or toMiinash", as an 'additional' or 

 'word suppletive, which signifieth 

 nothing' added to the numerals from 

 5 to 9 (inclusive), and 'which receiv- 

 eth the grammatical variation of the 

 thing.s juuribered, animate or inani- 

 mate': mtpamia tahshe, five; an. pi. 

 iKijuniiiii tiilntriog; inan. pi. napanna 

 loIisMixli [or tahshinash'i; yea tohsheu, 

 for so much?; nux, ne tohsheu, yes, 

 for so much, Acts 5, 8; wunneese tah- 

 she, twice as much. Job 42, 10; nequt 

 pasukme tahshee, a hundredfold (times 

 so much), Luke 8,8 {tohshe, so much; 

 9i(' lohsliit, so often, so many times, C). 

 n. an. tohsuog, how many (persons); 

 inan. lolishhuish, iahshinash, tohsuash, 

 how many (things); ne adtahshe, ne 

 aJihiit talishe, [that which is to or at so 

 many] so many as, the sum of, 2 Sam. 

 2, 23; Mark 6, 56; 2 K. 4, 8; suppos. 

 inan. ne adtahsil, the whole number, 

 the sum. Rev. 13, 18 {ne audtahsimt, 

 'the sum of the number', 1 Chr.21,5); 

 suppos. an. pi. ne adtahshehellit, they 

 being (when they were) so many, as 

 many of them as, Judg. 3, 1; 1 Tim. 

 6, 1. As a 'suppletive' to the numerals 

 from 5 to 10, the signification of tahshe 

 {tohsii) is obscure, though Eliot was 

 certainly wrong in supposing it without 

 significance. It may not improbaljly 

 be related to tahshin, he lifts himself, 

 raises up, and tahshinum, he holds up 

 or raises (his hand or something in his 

 hand). With an inan. subj. tahsltin 

 Vjecomes tahsheu, it lifts, or is lifted up. 

 The Algonquian system of numbers was 

 quinary, and borrowed doubtless fnim 

 the fingers of the hand. At five 

 {■napanna, nabo napajina, or sometimes 

 napanna tahshe), one hand was put up 

 {neepoa, neepan-nn, stood upright); at 

 six, 5-f 1, one finger of the second hand 

 was raised, nequtta tahshe, and so on. 

 [Narr. tashin com-mesim, how much 

 shall I give you?; pi. inan. tashinash. 

 Abn. kt'ssSaknaSa, on taiin! kessSihidit, 



tohsii, etc. — continued. 



combien sont ils?; kessenSrnaSa, ou kis- 

 Sf ((.yar, combien . . . de ces choses?; ni 

 akesinaii, voilil tout, voila toutes (des 

 poires); negSdaiis, six; p\. an. negSdaiu- 

 ki-ssSak; inan. -kessenSr. Micm. tach, 

 combien?; tachigek, combien sommes- 

 nous?; tachigigik, combien sont-ils? etc. 

 (comme un verbe) ; an. pi. ajSgom dPclti- 

 gik, six; deck a'emploie ordinairement 

 apres les nombres 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 100, 1000, 

 etc. Cree "from(d/ito, number (?), are 

 formed it-ttissit-uk (an. i. ), they are, or 

 number, so many; it-tahtin-tmh (inan. 

 i.)", etc.; nickoot-wdssik, six. Del. 

 tsrhitscli, more, again; /■( tclieu, how 

 much? Zeisb.] 



tohw^utch, toh'waj, adv. interrog. why? 

 (El. Gr. 21), Job 3, 11, 12: tohinitch 

 kouetjog, why sleep ye? Luke 22, 46. 

 tohvaj is the indefinite and suppos. 

 form. From toll and initche, what 

 from? wherefore? 



[Cree tan'v'echr, what from? why? 

 Xarr. tawhVrh.'] 



tolnwuttintupanoh, 'he cared for 

 (tliem)': mat . . . loliirullinlujHinooh, he 

 'not . . . careil for (the poor)', John 

 12, 6, =" inalta ii-utche tohen tupponum- 

 op" , Mass. Ps. (Eliot has matia loh- 

 hentupAnmnaum shepsoli, 'he careth not 

 for the sheep', John 10, 13, =)ho^^) lup- 

 panumom sheepsoh, Mass. Ps. ). 



toraeii, v. i. he escapes, saves himself, 

 goes clear (infin. tomun-ut, to escape, 

 - Ezra 9,8). Cans. an. tomhkni, he causes 

 to go clear, saves, delivers, 1 Sam. 23, 5; 

 iniperat. 2d sing, -f 3d. pi. tomireh, save 

 thou them, 1 Sam. 23, 2; suppos. noh 

 tuns init-toiiililk, he can deliver me, 1 

 Sam. 17, 37. Cans. inan. toiuuvhteau, 

 he saves (it), 2 K. 13, 25. 



tomogkon, v. i. it is flooded, there is 

 a flood. As n. a flood. Gen. 6, 17; 

 Jol) 22, 16; Matt. 7, 25; the rising of 

 water, flood tide {nippe tdmogkon, water 

 flows, C; tominogkon, tommog, Ma.ss. 

 Ps. ). PI. wadcJiuash sogkodt}ink tonwg- 

 konasli, the mountains flow with milk, 

 Joel 3, 18. Suppos. tomogkog, when it 

 flows with, when there is a flood, Ex. 

 3, 8. 



[Narr. tamocam, flood tide; tauma- 

 coks, upon the flood (i. e. when water 



