Micmac Dictionary
LIST OF MICMAC NAMES of Places, Rivers, Animals, Things, Etc., in Nova Scotia. Compiled by Elizabeth Frame.
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son. University Press, 1892.

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SOUND OF LETTERS IN MICMAC: The consonants are sounded as in English: g is always hard, as in go, egg, and c exactly like k; ch as in church; h following a vowel in the same syllable is a soft guttural, like the German ch in Ich. There is no f in Micmac; when attempting to pronounce French or English words which contain this letter, the Indians give it the sound of b or p.

The following are examples of the peculiarity termed "holophrastic," where a single word stands for a sentence: --

• Boon, the sitting place, the cross-piece on which the paddler sits.
• Boosenech, let us take a trip by water, let us go in a canoe.
• Epkwose, I have a shelter from the rain over my head.
• Kamatk, bushes yonder, beyond a cleared place.
• Nespe, to be stopping in the wigwam to take care of it, while the others are away.
• Newopskitk, the bed of the river is dry, and the rocks are bare.
• Wopk, the morning light, -- "the opening of the eye of the morning."

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1. ABADE: a boundary.
2. ABAKTOOE: the great auk.
3. ABE: a bow for an arrow.
4. AGAMOK: white ash.
5. AGOOMAKUN: Apple River, Cumberland County.
6. AGOOMAKUNUK: Sand River, Cumberland County.
7. AH-MAH-GOPS-KE-GEEK, AHMAHGOPSKEGEEK: tumbling over rocks; Tangier River.
8. AJEOK'CHEMIN, AJEOKCHEMIN: a blackberry.
9. AKKADA: abundance of things; plenty of ground-nuts; hence Acadie (French).
10. AKUM: a snow-shoe; raquette.
11. AMLAMEKW: a mackerel.
12. ANESAAK: Salmon River.
13. ANSAAKW: New Harbor.
14. APCHEECHKUMOOCHWAAKADE: Duck land. Hence the French name Canard River.
15. APAIBOOGWECHK: Port le Bear.
16. ASEEDIK: Lunenburg.
17. ASOOEMANOKSE: a creeping blackberry vine.
18. ASPATOGON: a headland on the Atlantic.
19. BAKTABA: a bay
20. BANOOK: the first lake as you ascend a river.
21. BANOOOPSKEK: opening out through rocks, as Penobscot.
22. BANOOSKEK: entrance into Bras d'Or Lake
23. BANOSKEK: a water passage between two lakes.
24. BA'PKOKTE'K, BAPKOKTEK: Argyle
25. BAPKOOK: the birch bark will easily peel.
26. BASLOOAAKADE: St. Peter's Island, near Prince Edward Island.
27. BOOKT: the head of a bay.
28. BOOKTAWI'CHK, BOOKTAWICHK: rum, from
29. BOOKTAO: fire; hence fire-water; alcohol.
30. BOOKTOULAYGUN: fireworks; Toney River.
31. BOOKTOWAAGUN: Mill Creek on the River Hebert in Cumberland County
32. BOONAMOOKWODE: Salmon River, Yarmouth.
33. BOSTOON: America.
34. BOSTOONKAWAACH: an American
35. BOSTOONKAWOO'LKW, BOSTOONKAWOOLKW: an American vessel.
36. BROOKSAKE: Charlottetown Harbor, Prince Edward Island.
37. CAJJ-BOOGINEK: winding through the wilderness; River John.
38. CALUGET: Carraget Harbor.
39. CANSOKE: facing the frowning cliff; Canso.
40. CASKUMPEC: flowing through the sand; Casenmpec, P.E. Island.
41. CAYDYBUNNYGEK: clam diggings; Boot Island, Horton.
42. CHEBOOKT: Halifax, from Ukchebookt, the largest harbor or bay.
43. CHEEMA: to paddle a canoe.
44. CHEGAOO: bass; a fish.
45. CHEGUMAKUN: a rattle; an Indian tambourine.
46. CHIJIKWTOOK: Cornwallis River.
47. CHIKCHOWWEGUNECHWA-WOSO-WEK: a rose.
48. CHIKCHOWWEGUNEJUL: roseberries; also the name of an orange.
49. CHIPCHOWWECH: a robin.
50. CWESOMALLYGEEK: Hardwood Ridge, Cumberland.
51. EBEDEK: Bedeque, P.E. Island.
52. ELMUNAKUNCHEECH: Little Sevogal River.
53. ELSETKOOK: Bear River in Nova Scotia.
54. EMSUK: Port Jolli.
55. EPPAYGUIT: anchored on the wave; Prince Edward Island.
56. ESKUMAAGA: to eat raw flesh; hence the name of the eskimo Indians, eaters of raw flesh.
57. ESKUMUNAAK: Mount Skumunak.
58. ESKUMUNAAK: Point Skimenack, in New Brunswick.
59. ESKWODEK: Murray Harbor, P.E.I.
60. ESPAKUMEGEK: high land. Green Hill, Pictou County.
61. GASPECH: Gaspe; far into the water.
62. GLOOSCAP: a manitou who dwelt in the Bay of Fundy, at Blomidon.
63. GOOLWAGOPSKOOCH: Port George.
64. GUL-WAHGAHGEK: the home of the sea-cow; Quaco, New Brunswick.
65. INSKOOOMADEEDICH: Lakeland, N.S.
66. KABEM: the border of a lake.
67. KAGWEAMKEK: Port Hood.
68. KAKAGWEK: a place of dried meat; now Hantsport, in Hants County.
69. KAKWELEEGIGUN: a snow-bank.
70. KALEBOO: caribou.
71. KALEBOODE: a shovel. Hence Kaleboo, carbou, the shoveller, because they shovel up the snow with their broad feet in digging down for the moss on which they feed.
72. KATKOOCH' and KATKOOLCH': Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia.
73. KEASKUNOO'GWEJIT, KEASKUNOOGWEJIT: a mighty chopper, a fabulous being who cuts down trees; you hear the chopping, the workman is invisible, but the tree falls.
74. KEBAMKEAK': Bathurst, on the Bay of Chaleur.
75. KEBAPSKITK: the stream that connects two lakes. The six lakes on the Liverpool River, as you go up stream:
    1. Panook
    2. Kedooskek
    3. Pushugook'
    4. Kejimkoojik
    5. Imutkaak
    6. Toobeadoogook 

    Lakes on Salmon River, east of Halifax:

1. Usoogomusoogwedamk'
2. Milpaachk
3. Utkoskwaachk
4. Kloocheowpaachk
5. Nemchenokpaachk
6. Noogoomkubaak
7. Mtabes-waakade (where mud-catfish abound)

On Port Medway River are:

1. Banook
2. Maligeak'

76. KEBBEK: narrows; Quebec
77. KEGUMOOSK: Little River, a branch of the Restigouche.
78. KEKWAJOO: a badger.
79. KENOMEE: Sandy Point, now Economy, in Colchester County.
80. KESAPSKUL: Apesookaam Lake.
81. KESEGOO: an aged man.
82. KESEGOOAAKW: an aged porpoise or seal.
83. KESEGOO'E, KESEGOOE: an aged bird.
84. KESEGOOEESKW: an aged woman.
85. KESEGOOK: an aged porcupine.
86. KESEGOO'MSK, KESEGOOMSK: an aged beaver.
87. KESEGOO'SUM, KESEGOOSUM: an aged dog.
88. KESEGOO'TKW, KESEGOOTKW: an aged cow, moose, horse.
89. KESKAAK: the wood is broad.
90. KESKOOSPAAK: Little River.
91. KESKUTKWEK: the river is broad.
92. KESOKUDEK: the neighborhood of Archibald's Mills at Truro.
93. KESOOSKOWOSTOOGWEK: Middle River, Pictou.
94. KESOOSKWOSTOOGWEK: Little River, a branch of Sheet Harbor River.
95. KESPABEGEA'CHK, KESPABEGEACHK: Big Kespebaedak.
96. KEESPOOGWITK: Land's End, Yarmouth.
97. KIKCHEBOOGWEK: Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.
98. KITPOO: an eagle.
99. KITPOOAAKADE: Cape Shubenacadie.
100. KITPOO-AYKADDY: a place of eagles, near the river Shubenacadie, now known as the Eagles' Nest.
101. KLOOPSKEAAKADE: Bird Island.
102. KOBET: a beaver.
103. KOBETEK: Aylesford Bog.
104. KOO'KOOGWES, KOOKOOGWES: an owl.
105. KOOKUMIJENAGWANAK: Cape Dolphin.
106. KOOLPESOO'N, KOOLPESOON: an anchor.
107. KOOLPIJOOIK: Petpiswick Harbor.
108. KOOSPEM: a lake.
109. KOW-WEEK, KOWWEEK: porcupine quills.
110. KTADOOSOK: Saguenay River.
111. KULOKWEJOOK: Mary Joseph, below Halifax.
112. KULUMOOEJEMANOKSE: bilberry.
113. KWEBEK: the head of the tide, now Bedford.
114. KWEMOODEECH: Pope's Harbor.
115. KWESOMALEGEK: a hard-wood Point, now Fort Lawrence.
116. KWESOW-WAAK, KWESOWWAAK: a cape of land.
117. LOGUMKEEGUN: Shelburne.
118. LUNTOOK: deer.
119. LUSKUCH: Manadoo in Cape Breton.
120. LUSTEGOOCH: Restigouche River.

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