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justify — continued. 



the point of view of, the object of the 

 verb. Elsewhere (as in Rom. 5, 16, 

 18) Eliot employs the causat. form of 



justify — continued. 



the vbl. n. pass, mmpvienehittuonh, being 

 made just or right, from sampweneh- 

 heau, be makes (him) to lie just. 



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keep, wadchanum, he keeps (it); ooiraii- 

 chanum-un, he keeps it; suppos. noh 

 wadchanuk, he who keeps ( it) , a keeper; 

 wadchanish, keep thou (it). See para- 

 digm of this verb in El. Or. 24-27. It 

 signifies not merely to keep, but to keep 

 safely, to preserve, to save, vxidchau, 

 he keeps (hjm), protects, keeps safe 

 ( him) ; suffix an. mivadrhamth , he keeps 

 him; Hcoicadc/ianui-, he keeps me; wad- 

 chaneh, keep thou me; iradclianumeh, 

 keep thou it for me (vanchammmn, R. 

 W. ) See paradigm in El. Gr. 28-63. 

 This verb is largely employed by Eliot 

 in the composition of words new to the 

 language, but not the less intelligible to 

 his Indian hearers; as, vbl. n. pass. 

 wadchnnitiuonk, a being kept safe, 'sal- 

 vation'; n. agent, wadchuwaen-in, one 

 who keeps safe, a sa\'iour {wduchaunat, 

 a guardian, R. W. ). ndndvxhteouunat, 

 to keep (?), C. ; mm-ndnaueehtat, I keep, 

 ibid, nandwanumeli, keep thou me, C. ; 

 nun-nanauwimut,! am kejit, ibid. See 

 protect. 



kernel, umtch uhhuhkumuuil yean vuh- 

 hogkomunit, 'from the kernels even to 

 the husk', Xum. 6, 4. 



kettle, ohkuk, ohknhk, ahkiihq (aucuck, 

 E. W. ; olikuke, C.),a.n (earthen) pot or 

 vessel, a kettle; pi. -i-quog [from ohke, 

 earth], mishquockuk, a red copper ket- 

 tle, R. W. Imishq'-ohkuk, red earthen]. 

 See dish. 



kick at, tDfjkixhkoiii, he kicks at or 

 against (it); kut-togkishknmiin, thou 

 kickest against it (contract, togskom); 

 from togku, he strikes, with 'sh of vio- 

 lent action. V. i. lilfinnogshau, he 

 'kicked', Deut, 32, l.i. 



kidneys, mnttcouiniswg (pi.), the kid- 

 neys, the reins; nuUmwmussog, my reins, 

 Ps. 26, 2. 



kill, nushau, he kills (him); nummsh, I 

 kill or killed (him); suppos. noh mish- 



kill — continued . 



out or rifishoiil, he who kills; nush (niss, 

 R. W.I, kill thou; nughmk {nigsoke, 

 R. W. I, kill ye; pass, nushau, nusheau, 

 he is killed; pish nun-nushit, I shall be 

 killed; nng nnshitchejj, the slain (Gr. 

 veKpS), rsKvi; Lat. nex, tiecis; necor, 

 neci). iiiishnhkau (he goes on killing, 

 continues to kill), he daughters {nisheh- 

 konat, to kill, C.) [iivshau, with 'i- pro- 

 gressive]. V. i. nushehteav, mighteau, he 

 kills, he is a murderer {nuii-nlshteam, 

 I kill, C. ) : mishehteaog id imD/ut, they 

 commit murder in the way, Hos. 6, 9; 

 negat. imperat. rnishehteuhkon, thou 

 shalt not kill. 



kind (adj.), u-omonausa [immonau-usm, 

 he acts lovingly], he is kind to; vbl. n. 

 tromonaumoiik (love in exercise), kind 

 acting, kindness. See love. 



kind (n. ), unni (aianne, C. ; iane, Mass. 

 Ps. ) , erijane, of the sort or kind of ; as a 

 suffix -in, -e.nin, -ane, etc., marking the 

 relation of an individual to a species or 

 of species to genus, familv, or class; as 

 in neane, neijane, such as, of this or that 

 kind Ine-unni']: suppos. inan. neannak 

 {lifCinag, such, C. ), when it is of the 

 kind, like; and as substantive, likeness 

 (see like), unnaieu, unnwjeu, it is such 

 or so, it is of the kind of \^unnc-cuien']: 

 iie u'unnegen unnaiinyieat (infin. ), 'it is 

 good so to be', 1 Cor. 7, 26, i. e. to be in 

 such a state or condition (ageiionk). 

 An analysis of this verb furnishes the 

 key to Eliot's translation of Ex. 3, 14, 

 which proved so inexplicable a jiuzzle 

 to Mr Pickering and ilr Duponceau, 

 and which Heckewelder concluded, 

 after long research, must, "if it means 

 anything, be either 'I am a man, I am 

 a man ' or ' I do so, I do so ' , " and which 

 his correspondent, Dencke, thought 

 might be a new verb formed by Eliot, 

 but "not genuine Indian" (Notes on 



