Contributions to English Lexicography. 31 



Sa2>ajo, (probably an American Indian word:) an animal of 

 the genus Siniia, found in America. 



Squash, (according to Richardson, a pumpkin which is easily 

 squashed, but more probably an American Indian word, comp. 

 Narraganset, askatasquash, a vine apple ; see the quotation be- 

 low;) a plant of the genus Cucurbita. 



''Askutasqnash, a vine apple. Which the EngUsh from them 

 [the Indians] call squashes about the bignesse of apples of severall 

 colours, a sweet, light, wholesome, refreshing." — Roger Wil-^ 

 Hams, 1643. 



Squaio, (a word derived from the Massachusetts Indians, but 

 found in most languages of the Algonkin-Lenape family ; as, 

 Knistinaux, esg?«; Oiio\^?L,uque ; Algonkin, ickweh; Sheshata- 

 poosh, sehquoio ; Abenaki, naiikskoue, girl; Massachusetts, squau 

 or eshqiia ; Narraganset, squaws ; Mohican, peesquasoo, girl ; 

 Long Island, squah ; Delaware, okhqneh or khqueii ; Nanticoke, 

 acquahique ; Illinois, ickoe ; Shawno, equiwa ; Sauki, kwyokih ;) 

 an Indian woman. 



Succotash, (an American Indian word, Webster ;) food of green 

 maize and beans boiled together. 



Tobacco, (Haytian, tabaca, a pipe for smoking;) the name of 

 various species of the Nicotiana. 



Toina]iav)k, (an Algonkin-Lenape word ; as, Micmac, tomeha- 

 gan ; Abenaki, temahigan ; Massachusetts, togkunk ; Mohican, 

 tumnahecan ; Delaware, tainahicun ;) an Indian hatchet. 



Tomato, (thought by J. Thomson to be an American Indian 

 word ;) the love-apple, Solanum lycopersicum, originally from S. 

 America. 



Wampum, (a contraction of Massachusetts, wampiimpeage, 

 Indian money, thought to be connected with Massachusetts, 

 wompi, white, or Iroquois, wainpum, a marine shell ;) shells or 

 strings of shells used by the Indians for money. 



Wigwam, (an Algonkin-Lenape word ; as, Knistinaux, toas- 

 kyegun; Chippeway, wikiwam ; Ottawa, ivigwavk; Algonkin, 

 wikiwam ; Micmac, wigioom ; Abenaki, wAgwam ; Massachusetts, 

 ivikivam; Mohican, weekuwuhm ; Delaware, wiquoam ; Miami, 

 ivikameh; Illinois, om7mme ; >^\\di\vx\o, loiggewoam ; Menomeni, 

 weekeeivamn ;) an Indian hut or cabin. 



Yajikee, (according to Heckewelder, Indian, Yengees, a cor- 

 ruption of the name English, which the Indians applied to the 

 people of New- England ;) an inhabitant of New-England. 



