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 somebody whistling (gŭn-gwîksŭmā). This prefix may be an abbreviation for chawgwon? See.

long, inan. pl. (gŭnâ'ĭŭš) = N. qunni, Abn. kweni.

spirits’ light from punkwood (gŭškĕchŭng). No cognate.

quart (gwârt). Eng. loanword.

he whistles (gwî'ksŭ) = Abn. kîkwso he whistles and kîkwsowôgan whistling. See.

pestle (gwunsnâg) = N. quinahsin, lit. ‘a long stone,’ from qunni + assun. See.

oxen (hŏ'xĕnŭg). Eng. loanword. Cf. Abn. aksen an ox.

handkerchief (hā'ngĕchâĭ). Eng. loanword. Cf. Abn. moswa, from Fr. mouchoir.

horse (hŭzî's). Eng. loanword. Cf. Abn. ases; Pass. ha-as. Eliot has horsesug, pl., but the form nahnaiyeumooadt ‘creature that carries’ occurs in Natick. Cf. D. nanayunges (Heckewelder Correspondence, 402407 [sic]).

he works (âĭkî'kŭzû) = Abn. aloka; N. anakausu he works; nuttanákous I work. Here again we have the elided l-n in Pequot. Âĭkî = aloka-anaka.

work (noun â'ĭkŭnzû'). See.

Indian (ĭ'nchŭn), seen in Inchineen, i. e. Indian man + een, q. v. Eliot has Indian which was no doubt pronounced inchun.

spirit (jî'bâ'ĭ) = Stiles chepy; N. chippeog ghosts; Nanticoke tsee-e-p a dead man; Abn. chibai; D. tschipey. All these words come from a stem tsip-chip to separate, i. e. a spirit is something separated from the body. The form debe (dîbî) also occurs in Pequot with an approach to palatalization. See.

hell (jîbâĭkâ'nŭg). This probably contains the elements jeebi and ohke land, i. e. spirit land. See, and cf. Am. Anth., v, 203.

bird (jîts) = Abn. sîps, with palatalized sibilant and change of p to t. The N. was puppinshaas, from a different stem.

house (jŏ'kwîĕn). This is a most difficult word. In N. chokquog means ‘an Englishman,’ i. e. ‘a knife-man,’ with reference to the sword; cf. Oj. kitchimûkumân ‘big knife’ = ‘English.’ On the other hand, Oj. jaganash ‘Englishman’ seems to be cognate with N. chokquog ‘Englishman.’ I am tempted to see in Pequot jocqueen the word for Englishman, i. e. jog = the element for ‘knife’ = ‘Englishman’ + în ‘man.’ If the word really meant ‘house’ in Pequot according to Mrs