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make — continued. 



make, G. ; h'cKittin Iceesuck, lie made 

 the heavens; ivtikkexittiniies mime, he 

 made all; umckee.iiHn tifike, he made the 

 earth, R. W. ) ; with an. obj. kezheau, he 

 made (him), created (him); nuk-kezeh, 

 Icreatehim; niik-kezheop, nuk-kezheotiip, 

 I did create (him); suppos. part, kez- 

 heunt, creating, when he creates. Cf. 

 heb'iiu, he comes to life, lives; kctenh- 

 he.au, he gives life tn, 'cjuickeneth', 

 causes to live. 



male, nompaax, male, a male (of the 

 human species). noniposliuii, a male 

 animal (other than man); adj. mnnpo- 

 sliliiiire. enewasldiii, a male animal, 

 R. W. "The males of quadrupeds are 

 called lenno wechum, by contraction 



■ lennochum; thefemales, oc/i(/"p «'fc/)"m, 

 by contraction urhqneehnni. With the 

 winged tribe . . . leu no irelielle for the 

 males, and <icliqii,rhe//e (with a little 

 contraction ) for the female " , Hk w. , of 

 the Delaware, C'orresp. 368, 369. nin- 

 nu (he is a man), male: iikkezlieiih ■intho 

 ninniwh hih s<jitii, 'lie created them 

 male and female', Mark 10, 6 (but of 

 animalspi.s/i nompuliieuco kah squaiyeum, 

 they shall l)e male and female, Gen. 

 6, 19). See man. 



man, niiinn, (he is) a man: pi. luniniix/, 

 men, homines (imhi, niihiinuiri, man, 

 men, li. W.; ^luli. /uinsiirk ni'iii, orene- 

 xkieUiiiiji. line man: iieiiiniiiiniiir, (he 

 i.i) a man, I'.dw.; Narr. i/enli. Stiles, 

 i. e. !ie,„,li, this one; llel. leiiiio, 

 Hkw. " LeiDio in the Delaware lan- 

 guage signifies man, and so does lenape 

 in a more extended [restricted?] sense. 

 In the name (if the Leiin! Leiia/ie it 

 signifies people; but the word lemii 

 which precedes it has a different sig- 

 nification, and means original (?) and 

 sometimes common, plain, pure, un- 

 mixed", Hkw., Corresp. 412. Tliis 

 lenni ^s the same word written tianice 

 by Eliot and Cotton, of the same der- 

 ivation as ninnu, but with the form of 

 the adjective [ir!nnu-ae, n'mi-ae'], and 

 signifies any, common, normal. See 

 general). This word iiinmi is merely 

 the emphasized demonstrative of the 

 third, and through it of the first, per- 

 son, noli, vrei). ti'iDi, or eii'ii, and with 



man — continued. 



the verbal form, en'o-ii. he is such as 

 this oneorasl. It was emjiloyed only 

 when speaking of men of the same race, 

 tribe, or nation as the speaker, or those 

 nearly allied to it, "General [names] 

 belonging to all Natives, a.s Ninnnock, 

 Nmnimiisinuwock, EniskeelonipdHirog, 

 which signifies Men, Folk, or People," 

 R. W., Introduction. See he; kind 

 (n. ); like; this; missin, below. 



wosketomp (vir, a brave), a man; pi. 

 -\-aog {skeetoinp, pi. +01/0(7, man, men; 

 eniskeetmnpa'Liwog, people, R. W. ; Eliot 

 has wosketompaog kali nandnmieheg, 

 'both high and low', Ps. 49, 2; imxke- 

 loinp,imsk, man; lunnri co.'.-^v, any man; 

 orikntog woske, Another iwAVi, C). This, 

 the tribe name of man, appears to be 

 compounded of leonkeham, wo>ikehteau, 

 he does harm, hurts, destroys, spoils 

 (see hurt) and omp, man. The lat- 

 ter word was ])erhaps obsolete when 

 Eliot acquired a knowledge of the lan- 

 guage, but it was retained in many com- 

 pound w'ords, as will be noticed below. 

 utoskel- may be nothing more than the 

 suppositive form of ii-uske, young, as in 

 ii'iiskenin {u-tiskenli), C. ; wuskene, R.W.), 

 a young man, a youth; but this would 

 restrict the application of ■irnskelonip to 

 young braves, when, as is evident, it 

 was understood to have a more ex- 

 tended use by Eliot and Williams. The 

 first-mentioned etymology gives a sig- 

 nificance to the tribe name correspond- 

 ing to that of the Pequots [Fnginiinog, 

 the destroyers) and ilohawks { Mm- 

 vhauog, the devourers). 



The recurrence of th^ word oi)ip in 

 compounds, though it ■ nowhere ap- 

 pears standing by itself, shows it to 

 have been the ancient dialectic or 

 tribe name of man, appropriated, in 

 accordance with Indian usage, to the 

 favored race, whose men were all viri, 

 freemen, and masters, while those of 

 other tribes were contemptuously re- 

 garded as homines, barbari, captives 

 and slaves. See missui, below. From 

 this root come, apparently, noiiipacts 

 [n' omj)-6das, the man animal], male; 

 7telomp [iiprfu-om/)], my friend, brother 

 (Abn. iiiihiiilie, Rasles); nnigiromp 



