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child — continued. 



iniiThim, Edw.; henechdnog, your child- 

 ren, C.) ; vmnneecMneunk, tlie children, 

 as a body or class, collectively. See 

 daughter; son. 



*ch.iinney, wanachikomuk [wunnachkem- 

 mnk, C; icunnauchic&mock, R. W.), 

 ^iniiuwhqi-a'-koinuk, on the top of the 

 house. 



chin, inislimn, C. 



chogset. See cunner. 



choke, nuppashoon, I am choked, C. ; 

 iiiijiintr:laruog, they are choked. El. 



choose, pijii'iKnn, pepeneum, he chooses 

 (it); pejienash, choose thou; pepenau, 

 he chooses or selects (him); mahche 

 pepen&xionche, after having chosen 

 him, C. From penmive, it is different; 

 pe-penau, he differences. 



chosen, pepeitmwonche, -auoncJie. one who 

 is chosen. 



circle. See round. 



circumcise, quoshqitssau, quosquguiau, he 

 circumcises (him); quoshqussausu, (he 

 is) circumcised; suppos. part, noh 

 quoshqussuk, being circumcised. 



circumcision, vbl. n. qxioshqussawuonk. 



*city, bliloliin, keihtotan, great or chief 

 town. See town. 



clam, poquauhock, R. V^.; Peq. "pouh- 

 quauhhaug, p' quaughhaug, Stiles; the 

 round clam ( Venus mercenaria), from 

 the black or, rather, dark purple margin 

 of the shell, of which the Indians made 

 the '.SKcA'oii/iocA'or black money', R.W. 

 104. The first portion of the name, 

 pooquaw, is retained in Nantucket; the 

 last, quauhaug, in other parts of New- 

 England. Rasles gives (Abn.) 'pekSe, 

 pi. pekSahak, huitres'. The deriva- 

 tion is not clear. Perhaps pukquag, 

 that which is bored, and hang (hogk), 

 a shell; or pukquag (poquag) may be 

 employed in its derived sense, an in- 

 closure, with reference to the box-like 

 character of the shell as contrasted with 

 the gaping valves of the Mya. sickis- 

 suog {sdkkissuog, C. ; Peq. si^cksmmug, 

 Stiles), long clams, Mya arenaria 

 [=:suhq-, soliq-vssuog, they spit or 

 squirt]. 



claws, talons, onkqunnhog; uvnkqimne- 

 sog, their claws [iikquon-este, dim. a lit- 

 tle hook], muhkos, pi. miihkossog, the 



claws, talons — continued, 

 nails, claws, hoofs \_in'uhkdm, a sharp 

 point]. 



clay, manmnsk, pi. manoonskog, 'bricks'. 



clean, pahke, pohki (pohkoiySue, C. ; pah- 

 keyhw, cleanlily, ibid. ) ; pa/i/.rs», (he is) 

 clean, made clean or pure; pahketeau, 

 he cleans (it), makes clean. 



clear, pahke, pohki, (it is) clear (pahke- 

 yeiie, C. ; pduqui, R. W. ) ; pohqude, open, 

 manifest, that may be seen through 

 {pahkee, pohkiyeu, clearly, C. ); pdhkok 

 (when it is clear, transparent) , the clear 

 sky (pduqui, pdttquaqudt, 'it holds up', 

 R. W., i. e. it is clear). Related to 

 puhqui, it is hollow, bored through; 

 pdquog, a hole; hence, that which may 

 be seen through. Cf. Greek Sid, Sia 

 ay 00, S£iH0D(6Eixvv/.i:), possibly Sazo), 

 to divide. 



cleave, pohshinum, he divides, cleaves 

 in two, literally he halves (it), from 

 polishe, half, pahpassehtau, lie cleaves 

 it, makes it divide Ipohshe, with redup. 

 freq. and caus. inan. form]. 



climb, kutdntauohtou, he climbed up, 

 went by climbing; wutSntauau, he 

 climbed up to or into a place {n't&un- 

 tmvem, I climb; al&unlowash, climb 

 thou, R. W. ); tohkmtaau, he climbs 

 on (it), as a ladder, a rock, a tree 

 {nut-tohkcoK, I climb, C). 



close, closed, kuppohham, he stops, 

 shuts, closes (it); noh kohhog, he who 

 stops or closes; kobhamuk, suppos. part, 

 inan. pass, closed, when it is closed 

 {kuppash, ' shut the door', R. W. ; kup- 

 pdhhn»h hsquont, shut the door, C. ); 

 kuppi, thick, close, dense (cuppi-mach- 

 Aug, a thick wood, a swamp, R. W.); 

 kuppahlu, in a thicket or thick wood; 

 kuppadt, knppdd (when it is close), ice 

 (Peq., kuppat Stiles); kuppohhou (the 

 instrument of closing), a door; koppo- 

 muk, kobhamuk, kobhog, a closed place, a 

 harbor or haven; kuppiMam l=ktij>pi- 

 tam, closed mouth,] a dumb person, etc. 

 See shut. 



*cloth, monak (maiinek, R. W.; monag, 

 C), m'dnag, m'onagk, in compound 

 wortis -onagk: womponnk {wompinuit, 

 R. W.), white cloth; msquonagk {mish- 

 quimdl, R. W. ), red cloth, comaunekun- 

 nuo, have you any cloth? R. W., i. e. 

 kum-maunek-unnuo. monak was often 



