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

new compound,

without

any enlargement of the sense.

By

aubo to this dualistic term, we have the Indian joining the worct

name for cider. Radix, Connective,

Misb

....*"

.

.

.

Apple.

APPENDIX. Radix,

....

.

.

Undecided,

.

.

Min

.

Aubo

Compound of four syllables.

.

.

.

.

.

Misbiminaubo.

The term for rum is ishkoda wabo.

Berry.

Liquor.

Apple-berry liquor.

Ishkoda is itself a com

pound word, koda signifies a plain or valley, and

ish,

fire,

and

employed perhaps to denote quality and prostration ; w is a coalescent and aubo, liquor The five syllables, fire-liquor.

is

word for mechanical, and all classes of implements, is 'Jegun.

To break up (any inanimate substance), is Pegoobidon. or earth is Akki >

Akkum, surface of the

Land

earth.

Hence, PegooWassakumibe'ejegun, a plough or breaking-up-land instrument. au is light Biskoona, 'flame. Hence, Was-ko-nen-jegun, a ;

candle or light flame instrument.

Not only verbs and substantives are thus compounded and lengthened out in their syllabical structure, but adjectives ad mit of similar forms. Thus from the adjective radix misk^ there is