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

expression ia, signifying beautiful, fair, admirable, and placing the particle nac, land, earth, soil, in the objective, and changing

the latter for gan a lake ; bee, water ; min, good ; na, excellent ; ma, large water ; ock, forest ; we have the following trisyllabic

terms

:

Deer,

....

HUDSON RIVE& INDIANS.

the

fishes ;

insects,

tiles,

phenomena of the

wide-spread

heavens, of the forests and of the waters, supply words which are susceptible of being employed in the construction of new

Not only can the objective be exchanged for the nomi the qualifying word admits of many euphonious ex but native,

terms.

changes, and it may itself be employed as an objective, and the nominative itself thrown in the body of the terms as a qualify ing syllable ; producing a set of words like those heard in Peoria and Kaskaskia, where the terminal syllable, ia, denotes fair or

In these terms the syllable

beautiful. drift, is

denoting pebble or

os y

the adjunct noun.

Adbsia

.

Abbsia, Patbsia,

Fair deer land,