390 ANALYTIC ORTHOGRAPHY. 
animal with reversed arms, the right one being apparently on the left shoulder, because 
the palms, instead of facing each other, are exterior. 
636. peytcoGeyi, the horse. For petcorcegi; from peyve one, drce’ zy hoof, nail; the 
single-hoofed, or solidungular animal, this being its zoological characteristic, and one which 
very few Europeans would have observed. How few, for example, who have seen the 
gnu (=black,) and the camel, can tell whether the feet are solid or cleft. The Chippe- 
ways name an elephant, not from its trunk, but from its straight or columnar legs; and 
a sheep from its ‘ugly hair,’ the wool striking their attention unfavourably. In Bishop 
Baraga’s Dictionary of the Otshipwe Language, Cincinnati, 1853, the word for horse (bebe- 
jigoganji,) has a initial reduplication, like that for mole. In Choctaw, a horse is vsoba, 
from usu deer, hu'lba resemblance. In Nadaco, it is the Mexican Spanish ci‘baj6, which 
varies to cavare* (Eng. w, trilled r,) in Waco. Similarly, in Penobscot (here ¢ for tuc’v 
means river, compare Aroostook,) the English name with its article, appear as e.hos; and 
ahahsv, and a buffalo as babvlo. 
637. min (min, I being used for i,) huckleberry, pl. mmen, mt,né,s, thorn-apple, Datura 
stramonium; «s, dimin. mtn around sore, mints an island, mirtmvn, apple, (great berry,) 
written mishimin by Baraga, mitveGvab, a bow, because difficult, (evab,) to draw or bend; 
nin vab, nivab, I see; vabe/c, to-morrow (the time of being light,) vigtvam, a fut, from 
sheltering, in Lenape—vicvom. 
638. The muskalonge or great pike of the lakes, is in Chippeway morcino J3,, from mor- 
great, (compare Mich-igan, Missi-sippi,) cin6,j*, pike, and cinv’rciji is any long-snounted 
animal, asa hog. Compare pig and peak, pike. veju'ec, muskrat, eyerci’, mud. afe.bvodca'n, 
(place of artichokes,) Cheboygan, the orthography of which is French. mercic, swamp, 
whence Maskegon. murv-stbv’ great river. atritam6,, the red squirrel, Sciurus hudsonius, 
because it descends trees head foremost. ase’ne GO, grey squirrel, that sticks fast, or close, 
(to a limb ) 
639. The polysynthetic structure of the Vesperian languages is widely spread. In Aztec, 
according to Humboldt (Vues des Cordilleéres, p. 316,) a kiss is telennamiquiliztli, and pain 
is tetlayhiouiltiliztli. Condamine (Pinkerton, xiv. 225) thus speaks of the Tameos of South 
America. “The language of this people is indescribably difficult, and their enunciation 
still more extraordinary than their language. They draw their breath in speaking in 
such a manner that the sound of scarcely one vowel can be distinguished. They have 
words which, to describe, and then but imperfectly, would require at least nine or ten 
syllables, though, as pronounced by them, they seem to consist of but three or four. 
* These forms are sufficiently like the West African Grébo cébésd (horse,) to suggest an identity of origin. 
But this is from ¢é (to die,) in this manner. The peculiarity of the white race in Africa is to die in a short time, 
hence cobo dying kind, is the word for a white man; so is Jizard, so that a horse is considered the ‘white man’s lizard.’ 
