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ENGLISH-MENOMINI VOCABULARY 



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broth, wabu'. 



brotber, ni'mot (my brother); 

 elder brotber, na'enii — said 

 by younger brotber. Younger 

 brother, naq'se; elder or younger 

 brothers, ne'miitok ; eldest broth- 

 er, matsheq'kewis; brothers, ni 

 dish'e"n6k. 



brotherhood, wi'dishi'anun . 



brother-in-law, ne"tau; maybe 

 either sister's husband or wife's 

 brothei'. 



b u c kskin, abaq'soso'kum. 



bu ck skin (tan n ed ) , pi'kuihipa'- 

 sha. 



bud, we"eton. 



buffalo, masko'tiapisaq'kiu v ; i.e., 

 prairie cattle. 



bullet, ha n ni'. 



bullrusb.es, nipi'oshkun. 



bull snake, na'tuwc'. 



butternut, tree, paka'nawe'; 

 wood preferred in making dug- 

 out canoes. 



cake sugar, bakwa'tene'kan; 

 maple sugar molded in the shape 

 of small cakes; served to visitors 

 and friends, and also deposited 

 in grave boxes of friends and re- 

 lations as au offering. 



calamus, weq'ke. 



call, a, hobo'. 



canoe, me'tiko'ne ; bark canoe, 

 wi'kibosh; dugout canoe, nia'- 

 tehosb. 



cap for head, wi'oqku'an. 



carrier, naioq'ta. 



catfish, wiiseq'se. 



cattle, pisaq'kiu". 



cellar, ana'maqkl'u* ; ana'- 

 maqki'u 1 . 



certainly, tani'nakua'na. 



charm, otoq'kaniman. 



cheek, uma/nul. 



chest (breast), his or her chest, 

 uqpa'niu'. 



Chicago. From a Menomini 

 word, shika'ko or shika'go — 

 skunk. In the Ottawa language, 

 Shika'gunk has the suffix unkm 

 a locative, and signifies the 

 place of the skunk, or skunks. 

 In Ojibwa the word is Shiga'- 

 gung, the g commonly replacing 

 the k of the Menomini, to which 

 is added the suffix ung as a loca- 

 tive, thus making it, as before, 



"the place of the skunk," or, as 

 it is usually designated, "skuuk 

 village." By the Potawatomi, 

 Sac and Fox, and Kikapu it is 

 termed Shikak'. A Potawatomi 

 woman, Kizhko'kwe (Day Wo- 

 man), says that her uncle 3uk- 

 nak (Blackbird) used to trade at 

 the post where the city of Chi- 

 cago now stands, and that one 

 day he and others saw a skunk 

 trying to cross the river by swim- 

 ming, but as the animal reached 

 the middle it sank and drowned. 

 From this circumstance, says 

 Kizhko'kwe, the Indians always 

 spoke of this locality as Shikak', 

 it being a point where many 

 gathered at stated intervals 

 to trade and to receive goods. 

 Cadillac says Chicagou was a 

 post in 1683-1695, and remarks: 

 "Le mot signitte la Riviere de 

 Vail, a cause qu'elle en prodnit 

 naturellement sans aucun soiu 

 une ties- grande q uantite. II y a 

 la le village des Miamis, qui sont 

 des gens fort bieu faits; ils sont 

 bons guerriers et extremement 

 alertes. Ce sont de vrais et vexi- 

 tables levriers." 



chief, okwe'mau;old chief, sheka'- 

 tsho kwe'mau; war chief, na.'no- 

 weq'tau. 



chin, mitaq'piqkan ; miqtaq'pe- 

 gan. 



city, mi'nikan'; in the city, mi'ni- 

 ka'ni. 



claws, u o"sh'ko"sh';" the inter- 

 pretation of the word Osh'kosh. 



clear, waka'miu. 



cloud, a'naqkwot; pi., a'naqkwo'- 

 tan. 



club, war, mita'gos. 



clubbed, ke'papa'kamau', i. e., 

 clubbed with a stick, or with the 

 fists. 



coals, (live) watu'qsiu. 



colleague, nikan'; pi., nika'ni; 

 term applied by medicine men to 

 all others present within the cere- 

 monial structure. 



color, the terminal inseparable, 

 ik, is employed when speaking 

 of and designating colors; hasi'- 

 nakuS. 



comb, piua'q'kuan. 



