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each, an and inan. nuhnoh, each, every, 

 eagle, trompsiknk, u'omsikiil; wom]m,isi- 

 kmk (wompissacuk, pi. -]rquduog,'R.'W .; 

 woinpsnkook, C. ) [^irompi - psuk, white 

 great bird]. The name is more appro- 

 priately given to the fishhawk or 

 osprey (Pandion halifetus) than to the 

 bald eagle (Halisetns leucocephalus), 

 but was possibly applied to both birds 

 by the Indians of the coast, 

 ear, inilitdnorj, pi. -^ quash; nehtauoff, my 

 ear; kehtnnng, thy ear; wehtauog, his 

 eB,r(v)utt6uwog,^\. -j-quaxh, R. W.; Peq. 

 kuttuwavnege, (your) 'ear, or what 

 you hear by', Stiles.) From vah- 

 tenv, he knows, understands, perceives 

 (?('(f ?co, C ) ; suppos. particip. vvihtennk, 

 knowing, with termination marking 

 inan. agent, and m' indefinite prefixed. 

 Cf. Or. afsiv (aim), to feel, to perceive, 

 to hear; Lat. audire; Fr. entendre, to 

 hear, to understand. 

 early, iiompodeu, vomjini'if, early (next) 



morning. See day. 

 earn, tummuhhfmwi onkquatunk, he earns 

 (and obtains) wages;. suppos. iioh iam- 

 hmiiidt, he who earns (it). 

 earring, sogkunmhou, pi. -j-yuish. 

 earth, ohke {afike. E. W.; ohke, C), the 

 earth, land, place, country (Ahn. ki, 

 'terre', Rasles; Gr. yyj; Lat. terra). 

 The primary meaning appears to be 

 'that which produces or brings forth', 

 corresponding to the an. ohkas l=(ihke- 

 Odas}, the bringer forth, the mother. 

 nunahpd, nunohpe, earth, dry land (as 

 distinguished from water) . See dry. 

 earthquake, qveqvan (there is a shaking 

 or trembling), a shaking; pi. qiieqiian- 

 ash : olike inikkeemo koh qiieqnan, 'the 

 earth shook and trembled', Ps. 18, 7. 

 east, inHchepv.'6iyeu, imitchepiroayeii, east- 

 ward, on or to the east; iimtehe wutchep- 

 ii'oii/eti, from the east; irutchejivosh ( umt- 

 chepwoshe udttin, C), the east wind. 

 For toutehepwoijfeu the Massachusetts 

 Psalter substitutes vompanniyeii, and 

 Roger Williams has Wompanavd, 'the 

 Eastern Ood' (i. e. god of the dawn or 

 mornnig light), but iiopdiiii. the east 



east — continued. 



wind, and rliepenrmn { = inil-riiepjir(ish 

 of Eliot), the northeast wind (p. 83) 

 liftit-chepioh-ijeit, belonging to Chejty, 

 or the bad spirit, to whom the north- 

 east region appears to liave been 

 appropriated, as the west or northwest 

 was to Chfkesiw;and or Kisukqnaml 

 and the southwest to Kaufi'inlo>rit or 

 the good god], immpannii/en (where 

 the daylight is) appears to have been 

 the more generally received word for 

 'east' or 'to the east'. Its radical, 

 wompan, irdpi (white, light, bright, of 

 the dawn) , enters into the composition 

 of the names of places and people, as 

 Abenaki. ( ]Vapanachki) and Wampan- 

 nag.i ( Wampan-ohke) . See north. 



easy, 7iikk&mme {nickuminat, R. AV.; nik- 

 knmme, nukkumme, ?mH*rt/no/, C), it is 

 easy, not difficult or hard; suppos. 

 nirkihnmat, when it is easy. 



eat, meetsti, he eats (v. i. ), he takes 

 food; infin. metsinate, meetsimieate {vte- 

 tesimmhi, 'R. W. ; Del., mitzin Hkw.), 

 to eat; meet/fish, eat thon; meetfiHog, they 

 eat (ascAmetedmmis [=n,<!(jf ku7n-meetsiit- 

 rt.?], 'have you not yet eaten?' R. W. ; 

 Del. k'dapi mitzi, have you eaten? 

 Hkw.; n' mitzi, I eat, ibid.; n'dap/ti 

 mitzi, I am returned from eating, ibid.; 

 Muh. tneetmo, he eateth, Edw. ); vbl. n. 

 act. meetsuonk, eating, taking food 

 [meech-ussii^; v. t. meech, he eats (in- 

 animate food); num-meech, I eat (Del. 

 n' mitzi, Hkw.; num-mechin, C. ): imli 

 knmmeech -ireyaim, thou mayest eat flesh. 

 Dent. 12, 20 {keen meitch, 'I pra}', eat', 

 i. e. eat thou, E. W. ■). moiwhau, moh- 

 ivhnu, he eats (him, or animate object): 

 puppinashim ii.m-mohirho-uh, the beast 

 devoured him. Gen. 37, 20; qunnonon 

 mntta mmtehoou, the lion had not eaten 

 (him), 1 K. 1,S, 28 {cnm-m6hvcqiiork, 

 they will eat you; M(ihova<ig><uch or 

 Manquhuog, from moho, to eat, ' the can- 

 nibals or men-eaters up in the west 

 [i. e. Mohawks]', E. W.). Heckewel- 

 der says, "mitzin signifies to eat, and 

 so does mohoan", the latter being used, 

 in the language of the Delawares, when 



