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illustrate the idea of " genuine." Inini is " man," " Indian " (plural ininiwak); but inin is "true," "natural," "genuine," or "par excellence." From the Abb£ Cuoq's copious Dictionnaire de la Langne Algonquine the following are gleaned : Inini kdman, " hunting knife," carried in a sheath or scabbard, lit. " real metal " ; ininipatOy " (this horse) is a good, ' genuine ' trotter " ; inin andak, "pine tree," "real tree," lit. "tree of evergreen branches"; inin as/ikwdyi, " bark from which to make canoes," lit. " true bark " ; inin dsin, " flint," " silex," lit. " real stone," " live stone " ; inin dtik {a short), " cariboo," lit. " true or real beef or cow," dtik in- cluding any species of the bovine family; inin dtik {a long), " maple," lit. " the true tree," called also the national tree of Can- ada {dtik refers only to deciduous trees) ; inin mttik, " hard wood," as oak, etc. (in Canadian French, bois franc, as distinct from bois mou) ; inin Wemitigoshi, " a Frenchman of France."

Cree. — In the dialect of the western Cree or Kinisteno the terms inini and inin appear with slight consonantal change, as iyini'w, "man," and iyinato" true," "real," "principal." PfcreLacombe,who has studied this dialect carefully and published the results in his Dictionnaire et Grammairc de la Langue des Cris (Montreal, 1874), gives instances of their use, from which we gather that the Cree Indians call themselves Iyiniwok (from the radix iyin f "pure" and " first "), not because they believe themselves to be the first of men, but because they regard themselves to be still in a natural state. Whether or not this is the correct explanation of the term, it is certain that iyinato (abbreviated n't6k\ which is adjective and adverb simultaneously, corresponds closely to Uni and to the Iroquois dnwe below, and means "true," "real," and "truly," "really"; iyenato iyiniw y "a genuine Indian"; iyenato ayamihd- win, " the true religion " ; nt6k kissin anotch, " it is really cold today " ; iyinato naspitdtuwok, " they resemble one another extremely well " ; iyenato Wemistikosiw, " a Frenchman from France," " a true Frenchman " ; iyenato pitndtisiwin, " the true life" ; iyenato somi/iabuiy, " unadulterated or unmixed wine."

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