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COMPOUND WORDS. 
‘bearing am I, — I bear’ ; marepra aiclii, ‘be will not bear,' 
properly, ‘bearing not will lie’ ; palcurbe, ‘good’ ; patcutari , 
• to make himself good_’ ; Tamanacu, ‘a Tamanac’ ; Tamana- 
cutari, ‘to make himself a Tamanac;’ Pongheme, ‘a Spaniard’; 
ponghemtari, ‘ to Spaniardize himself’ ; tenecclii, ‘I will see’: 
leneicre, ‘I will see again’; teccha, ‘I go’; tecsJiare, ‘Ire- 
turn’; mag pur butke, ‘a little Maypure Indian’; aicabutkc , 
‘ a little woman magpurifaje, ‘ an ugly Maypure Indian’ ; 
aicataje, ‘an ugly woman.’* 
In Biscayan: maitetutendot, ‘I love him,’ properly, ‘I 
loving have him;’ leguia, ‘the eye,’ and leguitsa , ‘to ’sec;’ 
aitagana, ‘towards the father:’ by adding tu, wo form the 
verb aitagmatu, ‘ to go towards the father ;’ ume-tasuna, ‘ soft 
and infantile ingenuity ;’ umcqacria, ‘ disagreeable childish- 
ness.’ 
I may add to these examples some descriptive compounds, 
which call to mind the infancy of nations, and strike us 
eqiuniy in the American and Biscayan languages, by a cer- 
tain ingenuousness of expression. ’ In Tamanac, the wasp 
(Mane-mu'), ‘father ( im-de ) of honey (nune);’ f the toes ,ptari- 
mucuru, properly, ‘the sons of the foot;’ the fingers, amgna- 
mucwm , ‘the sons of the hand;’ mushrooms, jeje-pmari , 
properly, ‘the cars (panart) of a tree (jeje);’ the veins of 
the hand, amgna-mitti, properly, ‘ the ramified roots ;’ leaves, 
prutpe-jareri, properly, 1 the hair at the top of the tree ;’ 
puirene-vejti, properly, the sun (veju), ‘straight’ or ‘perpen- 
dicular;’ lightning , % kinemeru-uaptori, properly, ‘the fire 
(napto) of the thunder,’ or ‘of the storm.’ In Biscayan, 
becoquia, the forehead, ‘what belongs (co and quia) to’ the 
eye (beguia) odotsa, ‘ the noise (otsa) of the cloud (ocleia),' 
or thunder ; arribicia, an echo, properly, ‘ the animated 
stone,’ from arria, stone, and bicia, life. 
The Chayma and Tamanac verbs have an enormous eom- 
* The diminutive of ‘woman 7 (aica) or of ‘ Maypure Indian’ is 
formed by adding butke, which is the termination of cvjuputke, ‘ little’ : 
tajc answers to the accio of the Italians. 
f It may not be unnecessary here to acquaint the reader that honey is 
produced by an insect of South America, belonging to, or nearly allied, 
to the wasp genus. This honey, however, possesses noxious qualities 
which are by some naturalists attributed to the plant Paulinia Australis, 
the juices of which are collected by the insect. 
J I recognise in kinemer s, ‘thunder’ or ‘storm,’ the root kinemt 
black.’ 
