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likeness — continued. 



in the likeness cif. nninixxiionl;, a like- 

 ness (of person to person), resemblance: 

 ut neliewonche ■iimllinnussnonganit, 'in 

 his own image', Gen. 1, 27; xnuUlnnus- 

 suonk, his form, appearance. Is. 52, 14 

 [vbl. n. from unni and hssh]. See like. 



line. See mark. 



lineag-e, nulnntseonk. See descent. 



linen, }i<isIiiihponak, 'linen cloth'; vxine- 

 glk Imshponak, 'tine linen'. See flax. 



"lion", qunnonm. "Forbeasts, there are 

 some bears, and they say lions also; for 

 they have been seen at Cape Anne", 

 N. E. Plantation, ch. xii. Cf. qu'dh- 

 qunonoii, 'a greyhound'; qnanunon, a 

 hawk. Probably the 'catamount' or 

 'panther'. 



lip, iiiussissittmn {missuKimn , C. ), pi. -{-ash; 

 viii'xissetmna.ih, his lips. 



liquid. See soft. 



lisping, sekontcDwau, C. (?). 



little, pewe, peaive, C, iorpedu, it is little 

 or small*; more commonly (dimin. ) 

 ju'iixi)i,{h is) a little thing; suppos.inan. 

 jj.-i.iik. j„ i/iisik, peesik, (when it is) little: 

 iniK,' pfiisik ouk ne moteag, less than 

 nothing; double divnin.^peamesan, a very 

 little thing; otherwise pa/)edsHi, suppos. 

 papeadk, (when it is) a very small 

 thing, a very little thing; an. papeasu, 

 suppos. papeasH, papeissit, (he is) very 

 little; and j)eississu, suppos. peississit, by 

 Tedxipl.jxqjeississit. Seeinfant. ogguhse, 

 little in quantity or amount(og'to.s.se, C. ) ; 

 pi. an. ogguhsiiog, few (persons); inan. 

 oggimnash, few (things) ; dimin. ogguh- 

 aemese nippe, a very little water. See 

 few. 



[•Marginal note.— In the Dahomey lan- 

 guage "the addition of pec-wee, or small, la 

 sufficient to express an almost entirely dif- 

 ferent meaning in our idiom; thus toh. a city; 

 toh pee-wee. a village; hoh, a house; hoh pee-wce, 

 ahut"(rorbes'sDahomey,i.219). See Pee-wee 

 in Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms.] 



live, pomantam, he lives; nuppoman tarn, 

 I live; suppos. noh pamdntog, he who 

 lives; pi. neg pamontogig, the living, 

 they who live; pres. part, pamonla- 

 mulche, living, alive; aA]. pomantamwae, 

 living; vhX.n.pomantamdonk, life(a««'- 

 paumpmauntam, I am very well; as- 

 paumpmaAntam sachim, how does the 

 sachem? R. W. ; asq nuppomanlam, I am 

 B. A. E., Bull. 25 19 



live — t-ontinueil. 



yet alive, C. ) . The form of tliis verlj in 

 -antain, denoting mental activity, with 

 the prefixed particle of indefinite mo- 

 tion or activity, pa, seems to mark as its 

 primary signification the power of men- 

 tal action, or, rather, the continued ex- 

 ercise of that power; cogitat, ergo est. 

 Heckewelder gives, from the Unami, Hi 

 kHehellei/a? are you yet alive?; Hi n'pa- 

 pomissi, I am yet able to walk about; 

 and states that "pommaachsin implies 

 action or motion connected with life, 

 which is still the principal idea ' ' ( Cor- 

 resp. 392). 



liver, mu-'ihqun; vushqnn, wimquii, his 

 liver. 



living, keteae, having life; vbl. ketea- 

 oitk, living, the life principle, vitality, 

 life: uk-keteaonk weyaun ohteau wusque- 

 heonganit, 'the life of the flesh is in the 

 blood', Lev. 17, 11. keleau, he is well, 

 he is recovered from sickness, he is in 

 life and health; causat. keleahheau, he 

 makes (him) live. 



lo! behold: /,».w//.' 



lobster, aslunint, pi. +ieaug, R. \V.; Peq. 

 inuschdndaug (pi.?). Stiles; au so haim- 

 auc hoc, AVood. 



log, qutlow, a log, C. 



long, qunni (it is) long; qunni onk, longer 

 than (anequnnag [for anue qiumiig ?] 

 longer, longest, C. ). sepe [sepeu'\ (it is 

 extended, stretched out), long, extend- 

 ed through time or space, 'a good 

 while'. Gen. 46, 29: sepe mahclie, long 

 after. Josh. 23, 1; hence, sepv, sep, a 

 river; sepagennm, he spreads or stretches 

 (it) out; sepdghunk, {sepdkehig, R. W. ) 

 a sail; sepepomantam, he lives long, he 

 is long lived, 'stricken in years', 

 Gen. 24, 1; sepdn \_sepe-ussin], he lies 

 down, makes himself long, stretches 

 out, etc. 



long as, tohsahke {to sahke, C. ); time fu- 

 ture, n6pajeh, so long as, until; nisdhke; 

 ash: ash painantam, while I live. 



long time ago, iidadt, iioadl it, nojadt 

 (when it is far off), 'in old time', Jo.<h. 

 24, 2; noadtuck, a long time, El. Gr. 21. 

 neumlch cheku, 'after a long time'. 

 Matt. 25, 19. See far. 



look, nuhquaeu, he looks or directs 

 the eye (with reference to the act of 



