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brook — continued. 

 Dimin. from sepu, a river. Dimiu. of 2d 

 degree xepohnme, a little rivulet, R. W. 



broth, pottage, subaheg, sebaheg, sahaheg, 

 that which is made soft or thinned. 

 From xiiiipn, , sabfti', goit, thin, melting. 



brother, imiial-itli, liis brother, the l)roth- 

 er of (him); irrnnil-iii (mveiiiiitlhi^C), 

 a brother, i. e. any brother, the brother 

 of any; Keema/, my brother; tenia/, thy 

 brother; pi. wanatog, his brothers (wee- 

 iiialUliiDck, they are brothers, R. W. ). 

 wedahtu-oh, her brother or sister, prop- 

 erly one of the same family or born 

 in the same house {netat, a si.ster, C. ). 

 nun-nohtdmikqus, my brother; kenohtd- 

 nukqus, thy brother; tnmnohtdnukqus- 

 oh, her brother, the brother of (her). 

 ioeetomp<is-xu (his or her friend), his or 

 her brother or sister (wetomiMit-in, a 

 sister, C. ) ; neetompas, my brother or 

 sister; keetompas, thy brother or sister 

 ( Abn. nidaiibe, mon frere, sen im etran- 

 ger que j'aime comme mon frere, 

 Rasles). N. collect, ireemattinneimk, all 

 the brothers, the brotherhood, wee- 

 sumus-soh, his or her younger brother 

 or sister, the younger of brothers or 

 sisters {wehummis, asister, R.W. ; Muh. 

 nglieex-uiii, a younger brother or sister, 

 Edw. 91). mohtormnigit, mohtomegiiche, 

 his or her eldest brother or sister, the 

 first born of brothers or sisters (Muh. 

 netohcon, an elder brother; nmase, an 

 elder sister, Edw. 91). See sister. 



It is doubtful whether Eliot liad 

 himself mastered the distinctions in 

 the expression of degrees of relation- 

 ship between male and female mem- 

 bers of the same family. From a com- 

 parison of the revised edition of his 

 translation with the translation of 

 John's Gospel printed with the Mas- 

 sachusetts Psalter in 1709 it appears 

 that ii;;iiiiil-i)h expressed the relation 

 <if linitlu'ito brother, vun-nohtdnukqus- 

 oh of brother to sister, ireetahtu-oh of 

 brother or sister (without distinction 

 of sex) to brother, and ireetompassu of 

 brother or si.ster to brother or sister, 

 used by either sex of either sex. For 

 the Abnaki see Rasles under parentee, 



Sffil'R. 



build a house, vekitlcau, he builds his 

 house, makes his wigwam (houses 

 himself); )i:ekuhkau, he builds a house 

 for (another person). 



building', n. wekitteaonk (pass. vhl. being 

 l)uilt). -A'om uA', which seems to signify 

 an inclosed place, a shelter or covert, 

 was used in the composition of names 

 of buildings other than dwelling houses 

 erected by the English. Thus qnnmmk- 

 quc-komuk {qumahqiii-komuk, C. ), a high 

 tower; mayyeakomuk [miyae-koinuk}, a 

 meeting hoiLse, C. ; me.chimukkntmik 

 (feeding house), a barn, ibid. ; voskeche 

 komuk, the top or roof of a house, etc. 



burden, weanmi, iveanin; weasmnau, he 

 bears a burden; weassuk, when he bears 

 a burden; pi. neg weassukeg, bearers of 

 burdens (nidntash and wcawhtish, take 

 it on your back, R. W. ). 



burn, \-. i. rhikohteau, chikohiau, it burns; 

 naitati rhikohiop, the fire burned (chik- 

 koht, C. ; chickot, fire, R.W. ) ; from i-hHi', 

 chikke, violent, fierce, and ohteaii, it has 

 itself, it inherently is); chikoht/te, burn- 

 ing, on fire. V. t. chikkosum, chikuhniini, 

 he burns (it); with an. obj. cbikkusxii. 

 (nul-chikkos. I burn, C. ). Vbl. n. (act. ) 

 chikkdhmionk, chikkosuoitk, a burning; 

 (pass.) chikkoswuttuonk, a being burned. 

 V. i. na.ihqiDiemi, it burns, primarily it 

 rages. Cf. Jiashquit (when it storms 

 violently), a tempest or destructive 

 storm {iiim-nishquet, I rage; nashquit- 

 tiu, a northerly storm or a tempest, C. ). 

 Suppos. part, concrete nanhqutlni/, that 

 which burns, a fire {squtta, R. W. ); 

 misJKiiniiiiie mohkossaash, burning coals. 

 ^'. t. iKishijiinsu \_riashqun-nssu, he makes 

 Imrn], he kindles, sets on fire; some- 

 times \. i. nashqun&numohteau, he kin- 

 dles fire. See consume. 



burnt, chikkohtauun; rhikkiisuiiiini ( oi 

 inan. obj.), pi. -i-ash. 



burrow, wfmogq {a. hole); owonogkuog, 

 mironogkmog, they burrow (have holes). 



burst, piiithksheau, it bursts asunder; 

 paskiilikdiii, jtdshkuhkom, he bursts (it) 

 asmider. From pdhtihe, half; pohsheaii, 

 it divides in two. See gun. 



bury, pusekinnau, be buries (him); 

 suffix tip-posekin-duh, they buried him 

 (niip-pcosick'm, I bury, C. ; posakiinna- 



