dub is the name of the eye-ball, hence ai-aub, to eye, Ozh appears tb be the root of or to see with the eye-ball. contrivance of species designed to float on water. every of light,

Wa-mit-ig-o%h, the people of the wooden-made vessel

this

the Algonquin term for a Frenchman. O%, vessel ; mitig, trees or timbers, and wa^ a plural phrase indicative of persons. is

It

is

the Indian must have had a term

said

for grape,

be

fore he made the compound

of the latter

term for wine, since the meaning Aubo in the Algonquin, means a grape-liquor.

is

but this is itself a dual Shomin^ is a grape The in the same Min^ language, means a berry.

liquid or liquor.

compound.

primordial root of

A Radix A Radix,

.... .

.

Undecided,

.

A compound of

Hence the terms

the word is Sho. Sbo

.

.

.

Aubo

.

.A grape.

.

Min.

.

:

A berry.

.

.

.A liquor.

.

Shominaubo.

Wine, that is grapefour syllables.

berry liquor.

The word Mishimin means an apple.

It

is

compounded

from Misb, the primordial root, and Min, a berry, with the The principle of short sound of / thrown in for euphony.

euphony requires a vowel to be interposed where two short words meet, which would bring two consonants (as in this case) in expressions which would bring together, and a consonant two vowels together. The enlargement of the word into the class of trisyllables, in all these cases, brings only sound into the