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path — continued. 



met/if where lies the way? R. W. )• 

 From rt", he goes to, aui, he goes, with 

 m' imlefinite. "From cian, 'to go', is 

 derived (•//((//((, ' whitherlgo' " (Chip.)> 

 Schoolcraft. 



patient, manunni^u, he is patient; vbl. n. 

 tiKiiiiinniyeuonk, patient, being patient; 

 manmniimonk, patience in exercise, 

 acting patiently. See slow. 



pay, oiidtuhkau, he pays (him); oad- 

 liihhih, pay thou me {oadtuhkah eyeu, 

 pay me now, C. ); inan. Sadtehtean, 

 madtehteiiou, he pays (it), as money, 

 tribute, a vow, etc., he makes pay- 

 ment of (it); (')(te/i<«(s/!, pay thou; pish 

 kul/kidtehteam, thou shalt pay (it) (vbl. 

 n. oiultehlctioiik, payment, C. ). kiin- 

 n(mm)i<itf}U.i, kuk-kehktrhus]i, I will jiay 

 you; kceskivhim teangmesin, pay me my 

 money, R. W. pdum, he pays, "a 

 word newly made from the English: 

 cuppdimish, I will pay you " , R. AV. El- 

 iot gives a paradigm of this verb in the 

 suffix an. form (Gram. 28-58): kvp- 

 paumush, I pay thee; mippayum, I pay 

 him, etc. 



peace, nquhie, R. W. 



peag'. See wampum. 



peak, kussohkoi, kussohkoi^/cK, on a high 

 peak or summit. 



pekan. See fisher. 



pen, mequn (a feather) {meek, a pen, C. ) ; 

 mecpmehquoy, a penknife. 



penny, ompskot {ompscat, R.W.; omj^skod, 

 C): nequt-ompskot (nequtomskot, Matt. 

 20, 2), one penny (nequittompxntt, R. 

 \V. ), i. e. one penny's worth of wampum 

 (=a span?). Cf. nees-ai'iiii.icat,. two 

 pence; neeK-aumscussayi, two spans (of 

 wampum), R. W. 



people, iiii(nim!ssi.i)iii'ock, 'folk or peo- 

 ple', R. W. See man ()m.9.sm)- I'liiji- 

 pismog, a people, a tribe (they w'ho 

 are separate or by themselves), from 

 chipjx', separate, and act. an. nnsu. Cf. 

 chippancoonk, a tribe (collectively). 



perform. See do. 



perhaps, jiaguodche, p>agteodcM(pogqudi- 

 rhe, C. ), it may be, perhaps, mamidt, 

 'it may be that', Gen. 16, 2 [ammiat, 

 perhaps, it may be; ammiate matteag, 

 maybe not. C. ). 



periwinkle, iiiele<ii'iIiock, 'the periwinkle 

 [Pyrula carica or P. canaliculata] , of 

 which they make their wdmpan or 

 white money', R. W. The irompun 

 was made from "the stem or stock of 

 the . . . meleiiuhook, when all the shell 

 is broken off". Possibly from mehti'i- 

 vog, ear, and hogk, shell: ear-shapeil 

 shell; possibly from muttde, abundant, 

 as disthiguished from the rarer black 

 peag or siichtnhock. 

 permission, n m inugkmnaWmnk, C. 

 permit, inniniitnm, he wills, intends, 

 purposes (it); an. unnanumau, he per- 

 mits (him); suppos. uunanumit, if he 

 permit (him); inan. nnudritog, if he per- 

 mit (it), i. e. if he will (unanumeh, 

 permit me, C. ). See think. 

 person, himan, anybody, any person, 

 somebody; see any. N. collect, iintt- 

 tannunk, persons (as distinguished from 

 cattle, animals, or inanimate objects) ; 

 an. pi. miiUdancoog (they are many), the 

 multitude, many persons. 

 persuade, nupiveshanau, he persuades 

 (him); suffix vtin-nepireshaii-iili, he 

 persuaded him [nunnupweshdii , 1 per- 

 suade, C. ); act. an. nupveshassaxm, 

 he exercises or uses persuasion (nnji- 

 iDeshnshscoonat, to persuade, C. ) ; vbl. 

 n. nupiveshasscDwaonk, persuasion. 

 perverse, paymeu, (it is) out of the way, 

 contrary ; suppos. noh panneont, ' he who 

 is perverse', who goes out of the way, 

 Prov. 14, 2. See astray; different, 

 pestilence, i nniiuudunk, pestilence, con- 

 tagious or infectious disease, v-eexnu- 

 sliamil- [irixaiinshauonck, the plague, 

 R.W.; vlil. n. from wesauashm'd, he 

 hath the plague, ibid.), uvsuslu'innk, 

 'a fever', .John 4, 52; from iirsani, 

 »rf.s(ic, yellow, with -ish of dcrogaticju 

 or bad quality. See fever, 

 pestle, quinahsin: naslipe quinahsirtranik, 

 'with a pestle', Prov. 27, 22 [i. e. a 

 ' long stone ' , qanni-aMiin] . 

 physic, virmkelitn, moskehtu (maskit, R. 



\V. ), i. e. herlis. See medicine, 

 physician, pnuaxkehtuden, one who gives 

 medicine [from ponam, he puts, ap- 

 plies; »«asi-f/iAH, medicine]; ponaskehtu- 

 iromien, one who is giving medicine, a 

 physician in practice [ponam-muskehl- 



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