Males have two and sometimes three names, but generally two, one of which may be called his baptismal name, and the other that which he has acquired from some incident or cir
cumstance. The former is studiously concealed, and never revealed by the Indian bearing it j the latter is the familiar cog
nomen.
is characteristic of female names, that they denote the gender in their terminal syllable qua. The following will sufficiently illustrate the manner in which they are compounded:
It
.... Woman
Au zbe bik o qua, Bairn wa wa ge zbig a qua, Cbeeng gosh kum o qua,
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of the rock.
Woman of the thunder-cloud. Woman of the sounding foot
.... Woman Woman .... Woman steps.
Ke neance e qua,
Little rose-bud woman.
Mau je ge zbik o qua, O gin e bug o qua, O bub bau mwa wa ge zbig o qua, .
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of the zenith. of the rose. of the murmuring of
the skies.
The formation of geographical names is no exception to the rule.
Wombi, in the Natick, or Massachusetts dialect,
which
means white ; the Wappingers are presumed to have spoken, is a termination for azbfbik^ a rock or solid formation /V, or //, of rocks.
Hence Wombic, the Indian name
mountains o/ signifies
bad ;
for the
White
New Hampshire.
In the Algonquin, monaud nok and nac, in the same language, is a term indi
cative of rock or precipice.
Hence Monadnock, a detached