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id: 18279
title: The Composition of Indian Geographical Names Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages
author: Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond)
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summary:
  Every Indian synthesis--names of persons and places not excepted--must those which denote _Land_ or _Country_, _River_, _Water_, _Lake_ or _ahke_; Abnaki, _''ki_;) signifies LAND, and in local names, PLACE or _s[=e]p[=e]_; Abn. _sip[oo]_;) the Algonkin word for ''river'' is derived from a root that -TUK (Abn. _-teg[oo]é_; Del. _-ittuk_;) denotes a river whose waters ''divided tidal-river.'' The word for ''place'' (_ohke_, Abn. _''ki_,) and of a fishing place on Taunton River in the north-west part of [Footnote 16: Heckewelder, on Indian names, in Trans. Among Abnaki place-names having this form, the following deserve ''fishing places'' on the river, from Abn. _a[n]m''s[oo]a-khíge_, or named from a place near "the mouth of the stream, where it adjoineth such synthesis may have given names to fishing-places on tidal rivers, [Footnote 67: Paper on Indian Names, ut supra, p. fishing-place between'' the rivers, or the ''half-way (on Taunton River, in Middleborough, Mass.) ''at the fish place,'' a


