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eat — continued, 

 what is eaten "required the use of the 

 teeth", and guntammen when that 

 which was eaten "needed no chewing, 

 as pottage, mush, or the like." "If he 

 has eaten of both kinds of provisions at 

 his meal he will then use the generic 

 term [intransitive verb?] and say n' dap- 

 pi rnitzi, I have eaten" (correspondence 

 with Duponceau). The distinction be- 

 tween the verVjs maybe more correctly 

 expressed, at least so far as the lan- 

 guage of Massachusetts is concerned, 

 by stating that the intransitive verb 

 'he eats' is expressed by metzu, the 

 transitive inanimate by meech, he eats 

 vegetable food (whence weatchiminne- 

 nsh, eachimminneash [^m' eechum-minne- 

 ctsh, eatable grain], corn, and meeckum- 

 uonk, fruit, vegetable food), and the 

 transitive animate by mmwhau, he eats 

 that which has life, or an animate ob- 

 ject; perhaps, primarily, hebites ortears 

 with the teeth: nimhcoti-omm [uinirliaii- 

 nioo'] og(fii; ngkaok-ut , 'it biteth like a 

 serpent', Prov. 23, 32; suppos. noh 

 7na)hhukqiie, 'he who eateth me', John 

 6, 57; mhquaog ummaihwhoiiJi, the worms 

 ate him, 'he was eaten of Avorms', Acts 

 12, 23; mmu'haii, locusts, 'he did eat 

 locusts', Mark 1, 6; but num-meech ivey- 

 aus, I eat meat, flesh (as Deut. 12, 20), 

 etc. These three verbs — metzu, meech, 

 mmv-hau — denote the act of eating 

 or taking food. There was another 

 and older verb, not fomid in Eliot ex- 

 cept in compound words, which signi- 

 fied to feed or to satisfy the appetite, 

 namely iippao or upwou, (cf. Sansk. pd, 

 'nourrir, soutenir', 'sustentare' , Bopp. ; 

 Gr. Ttaoo; \M. p>a, m pii-ri, pd-hulum.) 

 Its compounds and derivatives are 

 numerous, as, nnliippco, iHidluppco, it 

 (an animal other than man) feeds or 

 grazes: pigs-og ncduppuog, the swine 

 feed or were feeding, Luke 8, 32; nee- 

 tasmiqg pish nadluppmog {nolupwock, 

 R. W.), the cattle shall feed, Is. 30, 

 23; V. t. inan. nadluppmwontam, he feeds 

 upon; kodtuppm [kod-Uppao, he desires 

 to feed], he is hungry; vanifpoo l^name- 

 ftppco, he feeds wholly or entirely], he 

 is satisfied or fills himself; ti'ipiippm 

 \t&pi-uppm, he feeds sufticieiitly], he 



eat — continued . 

 has eaten enough, has sufficient; "-».s- 

 saumepco [wussaume-uppm, he eats too 

 much], he is gluttonous; mighadtupj>m 

 [mish-adt-tcppm, he eats when there is 

 much], he feasts, partakes of a feast; 

 weeladtiippoj lirrfii-adt-uppco, he eats in 

 company with], he feeds with others; 

 sogkepoo laogk-uppao], he bites; ntah- 

 chippco lmahrhe-tij)pco, he has com- 

 pletely fed], he has done eating ( hkii'i- 

 rheptrnt, -when he hath eaten; niai'irhep- 

 micks, after meals, R. W.), hence, he 

 eats up, devours, wholly consumes 

 {nummahchip, I devour, C. ). vvhpillit- 

 tuk, let us eat together, Exp. Mayhew. 

 Cf. iiiejjil, tooth. 

 ebb tide, maiioheton, R. W. See tide. 

 edge, kenng (that which is sharp), vi- m 

 ketuig. v'lis, the edge, border, brim, etc. 

 {■imiss, the edge or list of cloth, R. W. ) ; 

 pi. viissash; the borders of; id ini/Diadt, 

 on the edge (of a garment, etc. ), on the 

 brim (of a cuj) or vessel, etc. ). 

 eels, neeshauog, sossammauqiiock, nquitle- 

 connauog, R. W. ; Peq. neesh, neeshnaugx, 

 Stiles; Narr. neshuongok, eels. Stiles; 

 nequttika, an eel, C. Two of these 

 names, nquitteconnauog and tii-ivldn'ing, 

 are evidently compounded with the 

 numerals neqtdfri, one, and iii'ei<e, two, 

 as descriptive of two varieties or spe- 

 cies of the eel. The former signifies he 

 is alone, one by himself (nukquttegheu, 

 'only son', as in Luke 7, 12; 9, 38; Gen. 

 22, 2), and the latter, neeshmwg, they 

 couple, go in pairs (tieesuog, 'two of a 

 sort', a pair, Gen. 6, 19, 20). The origin 

 of these names may be found, perhaps, 

 in the popular belief that the common 

 eel was hermaphrodite, or rather, epi- 

 cene. See Smith's Nat. Hist, of Fishes 

 of Mass., 236. The name " neshaw eel " 

 is still retained by the fishermen of 

 Marthas Vineyard, at Holmes Hole, 

 and perhajM elsewhere, for the silver 

 eel (Murpena argentea of Le Sueur) 

 (Storer's Report on Fishes of Mass. ). 

 effeminate. See delicate, 

 egg, ir6n, w66n; pi. wdanash; oaummash, 

 her eggs; ne vmmpag viodu, the white of 

 an egg. Job 6, 6 (wot;, pi. w&nash, C. ). 

 Cf. oiias, animal; weyaus, flesh; muh, 

 he proceeds from; mm, vrom, he goes 



