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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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- ABADE: a boundary.
- ABAKTOOE: the great auk.
- ABE: a bow for an arrow.
- AGAMOK: white ash.
- AGOOMAKUN: Apple River, Cumberland
County.
- AGOOMAKUNUK: Sand River, Cumberland
County.
- AH-MAH-GOPS-KE-GEEK,
AHMAHGOPSKEGEEK:
tumbling over rocks; Tangier River.
- AJEOK'CHEMIN,
AJEOKCHEMIN: a
blackberry.
- AKKADA: abundance of things; plenty of
ground-nuts; hence Acadie (French).
- AKUM: a snow-shoe;
raquette.
- AMLAMEKW: a mackerel.
- ANESAAK: Salmon River.
- ANSAAKW: New Harbor.
- APCHEECHKUMOOCHWAAKADE: Duck land.
Hence the French name Canard River.
- APAIBOOGWECHK: Port le Bear.
- ASEEDIK: Lunenburg.
- ASOOEMANOKSE: a creeping blackberry
vine.
- ASPATOGON: a headland on the Atlantic.
- BAKTABA: a bay
- BANOOK: the first lake as you ascend a
river.
- BANOOOPSKEK: opening out through rocks,
as Penobscot.
- BANOOSKEK: entrance into Bras d'Or Lake
- BANOSKEK: a water passage between two
lakes.
- BA'PKOKTE'K,
BAPKOKTEK: Argyle
- BAPKOOK: the birch bark will easily
peel.
- BASLOOAAKADE: St. Peter's Island, near
Prince Edward Island.
- BOOKT: the head of a bay.
- BOOKTAWI'CHK,
BOOKTAWICHK: rum, from
- BOOKTAO: fire; hence fire-water;
alcohol.
- BOOKTOULAYGUN: fireworks; Toney River.
- BOOKTOWAAGUN: Mill Creek on the River
Hebert in Cumberland County
- BOONAMOOKWODE: Salmon River, Yarmouth.
- BOSTOON: America.
- BOSTOONKAWAACH: an American
- BOSTOONKAWOO'LKW,
BOSTOONKAWOOLKW: an
American vessel.
- BROOKSAKE: Charlottetown Harbor, Prince
Edward Island.
- CAJJ-BOOGINEK: winding through the
wilderness; River John.
- CALUGET: Carraget Harbor.
- CANSOKE: facing the frowning cliff;
Canso.
- CASKUMPEC: flowing through the sand;
Casenmpec, P.E. Island.
- CAYDYBUNNYGEK: clam diggings; Boot
Island, Horton.
- CHEBOOKT: Halifax, from Ukchebookt, the
largest harbor or bay.
- CHEEMA: to paddle a canoe.
- CHEGAOO: bass; a fish.
- CHEGUMAKUN: a rattle; an Indian
tambourine.
- CHIJIKWTOOK: Cornwallis River.
- CHIKCHOWWEGUNECHWA-WOSO-WEK: a rose.
- CHIKCHOWWEGUNEJUL: roseberries; also
the name of an orange.
- CHIPCHOWWECH: a robin.
- CWESOMALLYGEEK: Hardwood Ridge,
Cumberland.
- EBEDEK: Bedeque, P.E. Island.
- ELMUNAKUNCHEECH: Little Sevogal River.
- ELSETKOOK: Bear River in Nova Scotia.
- EMSUK: Port
Jolli.
- EPPAYGUIT: anchored on the wave; Prince
Edward Island.
- ESKUMAAGA: to eat raw flesh; hence the
name of the eskimo Indians, eaters of raw flesh.
- ESKUMUNAAK: Mount
Skumunak.
- ESKUMUNAAK: Point Skimenack, in New
Brunswick.
- ESKWODEK: Murray Harbor,
P.E.I.
- ESPAKUMEGEK: high land. Green Hill,
Pictou County.
- GASPECH: Gaspe; far into the water.
- GLOOSCAP: a manitou who dwelt in the
Bay of Fundy, at Blomidon.
- GOOLWAGOPSKOOCH: Port George.
- GUL-WAHGAHGEK: the home of the
sea-cow; Quaco, New Brunswick.
- INSKOOOMADEEDICH: Lakeland,
N.S.
- KABEM: the border of a lake.
- KAGWEAMKEK: Port Hood.
- KAKAGWEK: a place of dried meat; now
Hantsport, in Hants County.
- KAKWELEEGIGUN: a snow-bank.
- KALEBOO: caribou.
- 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.
- KATKOOCH' and
KATKOOLCH':
Brooklyn, Queens County, Nova Scotia.
- 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.
- KEBAMKEAK': Bathurst, on the Bay of
Chaleur.
- KEBAPSKITK: the stream that connects
two lakes. The six lakes on the Liverpool River, as you go up stream:
- Panook
- Kedooskek
- Pushugook'
- Kejimkoojik
- Imutkaak
- Toobeadoogook
Lakes on Salmon River, east of Halifax:
- Usoogomusoogwedamk'
- Milpaachk
- Utkoskwaachk
- Kloocheowpaachk
- Nemchenokpaachk
- Noogoomkubaak
- Mtabes-waakade (where mud-catfish
abound)
On Port Medway River are:
- Banook
- Maligeak'
KEBBEK: narrows; Quebec
KEGUMOOSK: Little River, a branch of
the Restigouche.
KEKWAJOO: a badger.
KENOMEE: Sandy Point, now Economy, in
Colchester County.
KESAPSKUL: Apesookaam Lake.
KESEGOO: an aged man.
KESEGOOAAKW: an aged porpoise or seal.
KESEGOO'E,
KESEGOOE: an aged bird.
KESEGOOEESKW: an aged woman.
KESEGOOK: an aged porcupine.
KESEGOO'MSK,
KESEGOOMSK: an aged beaver.
KESEGOO'SUM,
KESEGOOSUM: an aged dog.
KESEGOO'TKW,
KESEGOOTKW: an aged cow, moose, horse.
KESKAAK: the wood is broad.
KESKOOSPAAK: Little River.
KESKUTKWEK: the river is broad.
KESOKUDEK: the neighborhood of
Archibald's Mills at Truro.
KESOOSKOWOSTOOGWEK: Middle River,
Pictou.
KESOOSKWOSTOOGWEK: Little River, a
branch of Sheet Harbor River.
KESPABEGEA'CHK,
KESPABEGEACHK: Big
Kespebaedak.
KEESPOOGWITK: Land's End, Yarmouth.
KIKCHEBOOGWEK: Cavendish, Prince Edward
Island.
KITPOO: an eagle.
KITPOOAAKADE: Cape
Shubenacadie.
KITPOO-AYKADDY: a place of eagles, near
the river Shubenacadie, now known as the Eagles' Nest.
KLOOPSKEAAKADE: Bird Island.
KOBET: a beaver.
KOBETEK: Aylesford Bog.
KOO'KOOGWES,
KOOKOOGWES: an owl.
KOOKUMIJENAGWANAK: Cape Dolphin.
KOOLPESOO'N,
KOOLPESOON: an anchor.
KOOLPIJOOIK: Petpiswick Harbor.
KOOSPEM: a lake.
KOW-WEEK,
KOWWEEK: porcupine quills.
KTADOOSOK: Saguenay River.
KULOKWEJOOK: Mary Joseph, below
Halifax.
KULUMOOEJEMANOKSE: bilberry.
KWEBEK: the head of the tide, now
Bedford.
KWEMOODEECH: Pope's Harbor.
KWESOMALEGEK: a hard-wood Point, now
Fort Lawrence.
KWESOW-WAAK,
KWESOWWAAK: a cape of land.
LOGUMKEEGUN: Shelburne.
LUNTOOK: deer.
LUSKUCH: Manadoo in
Cape Breton.
LUSTEGOOCH: Restigouche River.
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