words, denotes excellence ; oma, a large body of water j non, a place ; gan, a lake ; coda, a plain village, or cluster of houses, &c.

"

or valley ; oda, a

town,

By adding the primary syllable of a word, as conveying the

entire signification of the word, and employing it as a nominative

which are also made use of in their concen words is formed, which are generally shorter than their parent forms, more replete in their meanings, and securing, at the same time, a more uniformly euphonious

to other syllables,

trated forms,

a class of

pronounciation. Quantity and accent being thus at command elisions and transpositions, the number of syllables of these by

which a new

class of words shall consist, is a question to be Expletive consonants, harsh gutturals, and predetermined. double inflections, the pests of Indian lexography, are dropped,

and the selections made from and vowel sounds.

syllables which abound in liquid For it should be the object to preserve, as

APPENDIX.

new elements in this peculiar branch

of American literature,

not the harsh and barbarous, but the soft and sonorous sounds.

Terms from the Algonquin.

I.

we take, from the

" As a basis for these

terms,

vocabulary of analyzed words, the primary

terms ad, ab, os, w ud, pat, mo, at, seeb, gon, pew, cbig, naig, ag, mon, tig, cos, pen, mig, won ; meaning respectively deer, home, pebble, mountain, hill, spring, channel or current, river, clayland, iron, shore, sand, water's edge, corn, tree, grass, bird, ea gle, rose-bud. Subjecting these nominatives to the adjective