A Life on the American Frontiers: Collected Works of Henry Schoolcraft. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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СКАЧАТЬ like manner their names for the various implements and utensils of civilized life, are based upon the word Jeegun, one of those primitives, which, although never disjunctively used, denotes, in its modified forms, the various senses implied by our words instrument, contrivance, machine, &c. And by prefixing to this generic, a substantive, verb, or adjective, or parts of one or each, an entire new class of words is formed. In these combinations, the vowels e, and o, are sometimes used as connectives.

Keeshkeebô-jeegun	A saw	From Keeshkeezhun, v. a. to cut.
Seeseebô-jeegun	A file	From Seesee, to rub off, &c.
Wassakoonen-jeegun	A candle	From Wassakooda, bright, biskoona, flame, &c.
Beeseebô-jeegun	A coffee-mill	From Beesâ, fine grains, &c.
Minnikwâd-jeegun	A drinking vessel	From Minnekwâi, he drinks, &c.
Tâshkeebôd-jeegun	A saw mill	From Taushkâ, to split, &c.
Mudwâiabeed-jeegun	A violin	From Mudwâwâi, sound, âiâb, a string, &c.

      Sometimes this termination is shortened into gun, as in the following instances.

Onâ-gun	A dish.
Tikkina-gun	A cradle.
Neeba-gun	A bed.
Puddukkyi-gun	A fork.
Puggimmâ-gun	A war-club.
Opwâ-gun	A pipe.
Wassâitshie-gun	A window.
Wakkyi-gun	A house.
Pôdahwâ-gun	A fire-place.
Sheema-gun	A lance.

      Another class of derivatives is formed from wyân, indicating, generally, an undressed skin. Thus—

Muk-wyân	A bear skin	From Mukwah, a bear, and wyaun, a skin.
Wazhusk-wyân	A muskrat skin	From Wazhusk, a muskrat, &c.
Wabôs-wyân	A rabbit skin	From Wabôs, a rabbit, &c.
Neegik-wyân	An otter skin	From Neegih, an otter, &c.
Ojeegi-wyân	A fisher skin	From Ojeeg, a fisher, &c.
Wabizhais-ewyân	A martin skin	From wabizhais, a martin, &c.

      Wâbiwyan, a blanket, and bubbuggiwyan, a shirt, are also formed from this root. As the termination wyân, is chiefly restricted to undressed skins, or peltries, that of waigin, is, in like manner, generally applied to dressed skins, or to cloths. Thus—

Monido-waigin	Blue cloth, strouds	From Monido, spirit, &c.
Misk-waigin	Red cloth	From Miskwâ, red, &c.
Nondâ-waigin	Scarlet.
Peezhiki-waigin	A buffalo robe	From Peezhiki, a buffalo, &c.
Addik-waigin	A cariboo skin	From Addik, a cariboo, &c.
Ozhauwushk-waigin	Green cloth	From Ozhâwushkwâ, green.

      An interesting class of substantives is derived from the third person singular of the present indicative of the verb, by changing the vowel sound of the first syllable, and adding the letter d to that of the last, making the terminations in aid, âd, eed, id, ood. Thus, Pimmoossâ, he walks, becomes pâmoossâd, a walker.

aid—	Munnissai	He chops	Mânissaid	A chopper.
	Ozhibeigai	He writes	Wâzhibeigaid	A writer.
	Nundowainjeegai	He hunts	Nândowainjeegaid	A hunter.
âd—	Neebâ	He sleeps	Nâbâd	A sleeper.
	Kwâbahwâ	He fishes (with scoop net)	Kwyâbahwâd	A fisher, (with scoop net.)
	Puggidowâ	He fishes (with sein)	Pâgidowâd	A fisher, (with sein.)
eed—	Annokee	He works	Anokeed	A worker.
	Jeessakea	He juggles	Jossakeed	A juggler.
	Munnigobee	He pulls bark	Mainigobeed	A bark puller.
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