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dark — continued. 

 The name, as applieil to the constella- 

 tion and the animal, was probably de- 

 rived from pohkenai, signifying 'he 

 goes when it is dark', or by night. 



daug'hter, vtit-l<uin-ijh, his daughter, the 

 daughterof; ]il. /r»/-/,/»»-o(/, the daugh- 

 ters of, hi.s daughters; indcf. inil-hiuii-iii, 

 the daughter of anyone, any daughter, 

 a daughter {ivultonin, C. ); nut-taunt's 

 (nittadnnin, R. W. ; nutttmneef!, C. ), my 

 daughter; collect, iniftaimiunk, all the 

 daughters, all who are daughters, the 

 daughterhood; xvuU&nen, wuttauniyeii, 

 he begets or has a daughter, she bears 

 or has a daughter. 



Mr Du ponceau, in his Notes on Eliot's 

 Grammar (pp. xiii, xiv), expressed his 

 surprise, "after the positive statement 

 of our author that substantives are not 

 distinguished by cases (except [ani- 

 mates when governed by a verb transi- 

 tive] asabove mentioned ), to find differ- 

 ent terminations of the same word in 

 various parts of his translation of the 

 Bible, of which he makes no mention 

 and gives no explanation in his Graen- 

 mar." He instances umttaunoh Zion, 

 'daughter of Zion', Lam. 2, 8; wni 

 Jei-u^alemme wuttaunin, 'O daughter of 

 Jerusalem ! ' voi penomp Zione wuttavnin, 

 'O virgin daughter of Zion!' Lam. 2, 

 13; vuidsmneutunk vmttanoh Zion, 'the 

 wall of the daughter of Zion', Lam. 

 2,. 8; mi kenaau Jerumlennne vtUtaii- 

 neunk, '0 ye daughters of Jenisalem ! ' 

 Cant. 2, 7; kah ompetak iruttaneu (mis- 

 printed for vmttdnen), 'and she bare 

 a daughter', Gen. 30, 21. "The first 

 of these terminations is correct", Mr 

 Duponceau informs us, nuttanoh, kut- 

 tanoh, wuttanoh being "the proper 

 nominatives of this word", but the 

 others "can not be accounted for" 

 otherwise than by the conjecture that 

 Eliot "liad recourse to different Indian 

 dialects. ' ' A very moderate proficiency 

 in the study of the language would 

 have enabled Mr Duponceau to recon- 

 cile the seeming incongruity in a man- 

 ner more creditable to Eliot as a trans- 

 lator and to his own critical sagacity. 

 Thus, u-uttaunoh, his or her daughter, or 

 the daughter of (corresponding in form 

 B. A. E.,BuLL. 2.5-^l() 



daug-liter — continued. 



with the 3d pers. sing, of the transi- 

 tional or sutHx verb), is really the pos- 

 sessive or genitive-construct form, the 

 termination -oh indicaiing its govern- 

 ment by or dependence on the noun 

 following. In Jerumlemme wuttaunin, 

 lit. -'any Jerusalem daughter', the first 

 word has the form of an adjective, and 

 the termination -in (any) indicates the 

 indefinite use of the word 'daughter'; 

 wuttauneunk, in Jerugalemme umttaun- 

 eunk, is the collective, and signifies the 

 Jerusalem daughterhood, all the daugh- 

 ters of Jerusalem; and in ompetak imitto- 

 nen, 'afterwards she bare a daughter', 

 u'uttCneii, instead of being, as Mr Du- 

 ponceau supposed, "in the accusative 

 governed by an active verb", is itself 

 the verb, ompetak representing the ad- 

 verb 'afterwards'. See younger son or 

 daughter. 



daughter-in-law (son's wife), wmhim- 

 oh, his or her son's wife, the daughter- 

 in-law of ; kushim, thy daughter-in-law; 

 indef. wushim-in, a daughter-in-law. 



dawn, mohtompan {tnaiitdbon, 'it is day' 

 R. W. ) ; mohtompog, when it is moniing 

 (used with reference to a past or future 

 morning); en mohtompanit, until morn- 

 ing. See day. 



day, kemk (primarily the sun, the sun 

 as the source of heat and light; also the 

 sky or visible heavens, coelum), day, 

 sunlight: pasuk kemk, in one and the 

 same day. Gen. 27, 45; 1 Sam. 2, 34; pi. 

 -\- quash, Is. 24, 22, {anamakeesuck, this 

 day, R. W. ). Rarely used; see sun. 

 kes-dkod {keesakat, R. W. ; kes&kod, C. ), a 

 day, the space of a day; suppos. fe.s»A-oi-, 

 when it is day; a day past, future, or 

 contingent: iie kesnkok, on that day 

 when, or while it was that day; yeu 

 kesnkok, (on or within) this day; ne- 

 gonne kesukod, the first day; kesukod kah 

 nuhkon, day and night; pi. kesukodtaah, 

 days; adv. and adj. kemkod&eu, -dae, 

 by day, in the daytime (kemkkdtiae, 

 C. ; keesqush, keesuckqudi, by day, R. W. ) . 

 After a numeral adjective or the ad- 

 jectives 'few', 'many', or the like, 

 'days' was more commonly expressed 

 by -quinnu or -quinne, a day (or when 

 it was the day), or by the suppos. form 



