Indian Grammar Dictionary For N Dialect

Indian
Grammar Dictionary
For N-dialect
A Study of
A Key Into The Language
Of America
By Roger Williams, 1643
Moondancer Strong Woman

Aquidneck Indian Council
Newport, Rhode Island

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
OBrien, Francis Joseph, Jr. (Moondancer)
Jennings, Julianne (Strong Woman)
Indian Grammar Dictionary For N-dialect: A Study of A Key Into The Language Of America By Roger Williams,
1643 (First Edition).
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Algonquian Indian Languages (Narragansett)Grammar. 2. Algonquian Indian Languages
(Narragansett)Grammar
I. The Massachusett Language Revival Project, Aquidneck Indian Council, Inc.
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE,
PART I: DICTIONARY OF VERBS

Stems & Roots Listed By Verb Type, 1
Stems & Roots Alphabetical By Narragansett, 20
Stems & Roots Alphabetical By English, 37
PART II: DICTIONARY OF NOUNS, ADJECTIVES &C

Stems & Roots for Nouns, Adjectives &c, Alphabetical by English, 57
Stems & Roots for Nouns, Adjectives &c, Alphabetical by Narragansett, 86
GRAMMAR TABLE of Verb Forms by Type, 114

APPENDIX
accommodating /t/
reduced vowels
glottal stops
passive-voice verbs
verb participles
obviation
conjugation of verb for stem waut (to understand, believe, know)
E R R A T A
Indian Grammar Dictionary for N-Dialect
2000, Aquidneck Indian Council, Inc.
PAGE
4, 28, 43
7, 34, 55 (wake)
13, 35, 37
19, 56 (add entry, p.
20)
51 (add entry, p. 17)
6, 29, 53
7, 31, 39 (petite)
53
NOW READS
182, 132
19, 97, 116, 173
whauwhautowwow
anawhown
182-3
19
whauwhautowwaw
anawhowe
see row canoe

Subject, he is my subject
7, 142, 35, 7
chemosh, chemeck, U, 108

Revenge, I will revenge it
7, 142, 35
Add:
Ntacquetunck ewo, Subject, He is my
subject, 141
Add:
Nochisqauaw
Add: nsanapaushaumen, Flixe, I have
the bloody flixe (dysentery?), 198
127, 198
Man, a married
29, 150
Add:
machage, mateag, machaug, not,
nothing, 13, 42, 56, 132, 163, 169, &c.
Thunderbolts are shot (out of
alphabetical order)
Add: -maw-, 201
Add: -unam-, 136
Add: -eg, -ege, -ge, -g, -ug, The thing
that is, 12, 36, 42, 96 &c
29, 150
palle (a past tense marker?), 146
nittauke
Add: 44
Add: 18, 146
Add: weet-, 136
150
57, 92
(mammausa)
65, 98
68, 104 (powwaw)
71 (sanomp), 105
73 (orphans)
73, 92
CHANGE/ADD
127
man, a
29
79
81, 95
86 (-anam-, .)
89
-moua-,
93 (orphan)
100
106 (-t-)
108 (-uo, )
109 (-waw, -quaw)
109 (weekan-, )
81 (twins)
29
nittake
29

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The Authors
PREFACE
Cowankamunumun wame netompaog !
Friends, we greet and salute you!
Indian Grammar Dictionary for N-dialect is a reference work to assist in the
interpretation and understanding of the Roger Williams classic, A Key into the Language
of America, written in the year 1643 as a phrase book for English colonists in the New
World. One possible use of the present book is to create language lessons for this
complicated "extinct language" (not spoken since the end of the 19th century).
The present book serves both as an index to A Key and a compact summary of
grammatical information on the Narragansett dialect of the Algonquian language of
southeastern New England (called collectively the N-dialect). The dictionary has five
major components. First, we present a brief summary of the sounds of the language in a
Pronunciation Guide1. This small table will assist the reader with the often ambiguous
and inconsistent orthography (spellings) in A Key. No attempt is made to "teach
pronunciation" since the art of reconstructed speech is largely intuitive.
The next section, Part IDictionary of Verbs, gives a fairly complete listing of
the approximately 320 verb roots and stems found in A Key. Our selection is based
partially on the little-known academic work by Hagenau.2 When the roots and stems are
used in conjunction with the Grammar Table (back of the book), the reader will be able to
understand the structure of many of the approximately 820 conjugated verbs given in A
Key. Moreover, the reader may be able to reconstruct certain words not given by Roger
Williams.
The verb listings are presented in three different orderings: (a) by verb type3, (b)
alphabetical by Narragansett and (c) alphabetical by English. Each listing provides the
page numbers in A Key (the 1936 edition). Thus the reader has great facility in locating
individual roots/stems and finding them used by Roger Williams in A Key.
Part IIDictionary of Nouns, is a listing of roots, stems, words & phrases for
nouns, adjectives, and grammatical elements. Some verbs are given, since in the
Algonquian dialects, the interesting phenomenon exists whereby some adjectives also
function as verbs. The listing is given first alphabetically by English and then in the
reverse order, alphabetically by Narragansett. The reader will see a handful of words
selected from the closely related dialect called Natick.4 The authors have constructed and
reconstructed a number of words for this dictionary. The information in Part II
incorporates a number of roots and stems found in Aubins dissertation, already
mentioned.
1
The authors are indebted to the following two sources for information on phonology (pronunciation):
George A. Aubin (1972). A Historical Phonology of Narragansett in Roger Williams A Key into the
Language of America. Providence, RI: Brown University (Ph.D. Dissertation).
Ives Goddard (1981). Massachusett Phonology: A Preliminary Look. In Papers of the Twelfth
Algonquian Conference, ed. W. Cowan, 57-105. Ottawa: Carlton University.
2
Walter P. Hagenau (1962). A Morphological Study of Narragansett Indian Verbs in Roger Williams A
Key into the Language of America. Providence, RI: Brown University (M.A. Thesis).
3
Verb type is based on Hagenaus classification.
4
James H. Trumbull (1903). Natick Dictionary, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
The fourth section of Indian Grammar Dictionary is a Grammar Table which

summarizes inflectional morphemes for the five major verb types (prefix-root/stemsuffix components of verbs). The Grammar Table is modeled on Hagenaus summary of
the major Verb Types. Additional forms are included from the Natick dialect, found in
John Eliots 1666 grammar book, The Indian Grammar Begun, Cambridge, MA:
Marmaduke Johnson. Some use was made also of the "grammatical sketch" by Ives
Goddard & Kathleen Bragdon in Native Writings in Massachusett, American
Philosophical Society Memoir 185, Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society,
1988.
An Appendix is included to explain special grammatical/phonological features:
the "accommodating t," reduced vowels, glottal stops, obviation, verb participles, passive
voice and a complete conjugation of understand. The examples selected to
demonstrate the use of these features provides additional insight into the formation of
words in Narragansett.
Indian Grammar Dictionary for N-dialect has been used in tribal language
instruction. In our tutorials5 we use our own arrangement and partial re-translation of
Roger Williams A Key into the Language of America (copyright 2000, Aquidneck
Indian Council, Inc.). This book contains about one-half of the original Narragansett
dialect in A Key with extensive annotations. Future efforts are being directed at the
completion of this re-translation6.
We hope our modest efforts in Healing the Broken Circle will assist local tribal
members to regain some of their lost and sleeping tongues.
The authors are grateful to The John Carter Brown Library and Rockefeller
Library, Brown University, for assistance in obtaining the works of Eliot, Hagenau, and
Aubin. In addition we thank Widener Library, Harvard University, for obtaining a
photocopy of Josiah Cotton (1703, 1830), Vocabulary of the Massachusetts (Natick)
Indian Language, Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, Serial 3, Vol. II.
Darrell Waldron and his Board of Directors, Rhode Island Indian Council, were
very encouraging from the beginning. We thank them for their strong support. We also
thank the federally-recognized Narragansett Indian Tribal Nation, and other Indian
groups for their encouragement and support in this historic project.
Together we can walk Mishquamyagat (The Red Road). Our ancestors are
watching us. We honor them.
Moondancer Strong Woman <>
Rhode Island Indian Council & Aquidneck Indian Council
Classes are held at the Rhode Island Indian Council in Providence, Rhode Island.
Since the first printing, the Council has completed this work under the title, Introduction to the
Narragansett Language. 2001. This unique historical linguistics work contains nearly 1,000 footnotes.
6
A Key into the Language of America , 1643

[facsimiles of Title Page & pages 7, 10; Courtesy, University of Pennsylvania]
EENNTOWASH
SPEAK INDIAN
A Pronunciation Guide for

Narragansett Language
SPELLING
SOUND
(Roger Williams)
(approximate)
Some are uncertain
uh in sofa, cut
ou in bought
ah
ah in father
ou in bought
an, aum, aun
nasal sound
au
ou in bought
au in caught
aw
ou in bought
aw in raw
ah in father
b in big
p in pig
c, cc
k in cow, account
kw in queen
ca, co, cu
k in call, cold, cut
cau
cow
caw
ce, ci
s-sound in cede, civil, acid

z- or sh-sound as in sacrifice, ocean
ch
ch in chair
ck
k in cow
ch in child
kw in queen
ckq [before w]
d, dd
d in din, muddy
t in tin, putty
ddt, dt
STRESS MARKS
k in cow
kw in queen
d in din
t in tin
tee-ah [fast tempo] (a complex
sound between ch & t)
SPELLING
SOUND
(Roger Williams)
(approximate)
Some are uncertain
e in he or e in bed
uh in sofa, cut
silent [perhaps no sound at end of
some words]
e in he
ea
e in he
ea in yeah
ah in father
ee
ee in beet
ei
e in he
uh in sofa, cut
emes [word ending]
ee-mees
ese [word ending]
ees
eu
eu in feud
g [before w]
k in cow
kw in queen
guttural sound like German ach
g, gg, gk [word middle after a vowel]
k in cow
kw in queen
g, gk [word ending]
k in cow
kw in queen
uh in sofa, cut
e in he
i in hit
ie
e in he
ih
uh in sofa, cut
ee [?]
ee-uh [?]
k, kk
k in cow
kw in queen
k [before consonant]
kuh in cut
STRESS MARKS
ii
SPELLING
SOUND
(Roger Williams)
(approximate)
Some are uncertain
m, mm
m in mud, hammer
n [before consonant]
nuh in nut
nn [ beginning of word as in nnin]
ne-ne in enema [two n sounds]
n, nn [middle, end of word]
n in tan, tanning
uh in sofa, cut
ah in father
oo in food
o [after w]
ah in father
ou in bought
oo,
oo in food
oa [after w]
ah in father
ou in bought
oa in soap
oh
uh in sofa, cut
oh in go [?]
om, on
nasal sound
p, pp
b in big, bigger
p in pig, happy
q [word beginning & before vowel]
kw in queen
q [before w]
k in cow
kw in queen
s [word beginning & after consonant]
s in sip, racks
s, ss [after vowel ]
s in sip [one s sound]
sc
sk in skill
sh [before vowel & word ending]
sh in she, push
sh [before consonant]
s in sip
shk
sk in skill
shq
sk in skill
sk
sk in skill
skc
sk in skill
STRESS MARKS
iii
SPELLING
SOUND
(Roger Williams)
(approximate)
Some are uncertain
sp
sp in spell
sq
skw in squid
d in din
t in tin
tt
t in tin, putty
d in din, muddy
tch
tch in itch
te [word beginning ]
tee-you [fast tempo] (a complex

sound between ch & t))
tea, ttea [after a vowel]

teau, teu, tteu [word middle or end]

uh in sofa, cut
ah (short version).
some think that at the beginning of
some words, a u was a whistling
sound (see w)
w, ww
w in won (one w heard) [perhaps a

whistling sound in some words
beginning with w]
y in yes
s in sip
STRESS MARKS
iv
PART I
DICTIONARY OF VERBS
Roots and Stems For Verbs

Listed by Verb Type, and
Alphabetical by Narragansett & English
NARRAGANSETT
VERB
ENGLISH
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
LISTED BY
VERB TYPE1
TYPE I
musquant
pockun
tammaunt
missin
niaut
wawhush
pake
pepenash!2
pee
tuppaunt
aket
mish
pannawaut
quamph
sekine
wuttat
potauntash!
potawash!
mauataun
wannan
weeteant
wecont
1
Angry
Blind
Busy, take care of,
heed
Captive , take
Carry on one's back
Carry on one's back
Cast away, divorce
Choice , take!
Come, be present
Consider
Count money
Dead , name the
Disbelieve
Dish out, serve
Dislike, unwilling
Drink
Fire, blow!
Fire, make!
Fire, tend
Forget
Glad, be glad
Glad, happy, have a
mind to
I
I
I
182, 124
197
35, 169
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
188
41, 38
41, 38
150, 44, 183, 108
42
34, 63, 6, 44, 74
189, 190
164
202
56
15
166, 187
12, 14
34
34
19
8
59, 136
59, 71
Verb Type corresponds to those used in Grammar Table and other types. For example, for the Type I stem
waut (to understand, believe, know) , we can say <1> nowatam (I understand") <2> Cowatam? (Do
you understand ?); <3> watam (s/he understands); <4> watatch! (let him, her understand!), etc.
Some verbs may be repeated or listed in Part II, Dictionary of Nouns, Adjectives, etc. For example, some
adjectives are also verbs, such as colors. The accent/stress marks must be found in A Key.
2
Words with exclamation marks are complete words in imperative mood and the complete Williams
translation (without accent/stress marks). Thus for these words, the stem/root must be derived from rules of
grammar.
1
NARRAGANSETT
VERB
nickquenum
nowant or nowaunt
wachaun
cussawontap
anoce wenawash!
paupautuckquash!
niautamwock
cuttun
nickat
wekine
mechimuash!
cattite
cattaunt
shookekineas!
kekine
wauwhautowash!
qussut
aquie mishommoke
chesam,chesammat
peeyaunt
ocquash!
tannot
meshannant, meyaont
nnowautum or nnowauntum
awanagusantowosh!
eenantowash!
mishauntowash!
nanantowash!
kinnequass!
aumaun
taubat, taup, taub
teant
tunnant
waut
askwhitteass!
paumpmaunt
ENGLISH
Go, "I am returning
home to my family"3
Grieve
Have, keep
Headache
Hire him!
Hold water!
Laden,
"They
are
laden"
Launch
Leave, depart
Like
Load it!
Long for, desire, want
Look at this!
Look at, behold
Meeting , call!
Move residence
Name, Do not name
the dead
Pain, sore
Pray
Put on!
Revenge, get revenge
Scorn, indignation
Sorry, I am sorry
Speak English!
Speak Indian!
Speak out!
Speak plain!
Steer (canoe)!
Take away
Thank
Think
Think
Understand,
believe,
know
Watch!
Well, be well, fare well
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
31
I
I
I
I
I
I
144, 201
159, 40
194
69
109
38, 41
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
108
44
159
185
15, 172
15
39, 164
39, 169, 37, 38, 39, 164
142
36, 46
202
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
194, 195
20, 130
119
141
183
144, 201
8
8
142
142
109
39, 144, 150
2, 7, 134, 14, 35,70,
120
58
58, 86, 131
8, 56, 36, 9
I
I
185
2, 3
English translations enclosed in quotes are the complete verb (without accent/stress marks). The
root/stem has not been derived. Occasionally, the stem/root has been abstracted from the complete verb
given, but should be taken as conjectural.
2
NARRAGANSETT
VERB
waunt, wauont
ENGLISH
Wise
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
190, 141
II
70, 187
II
II
182, 183, 123, 138

142
II
II
II
160
156
179
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
202
160
163
109
155, 156
186, 166
165
33, 58, 83
8, 6, 9, 63, 77, 34, 7,
142, 35, 59, 168, 72
II
II
II
II
77
6, 35, 34, 33
172, 176
77
II
8, 72
II
II
61
187
II
187
II
II
II
II
II
185
14
12
13
96
TYPE II
wetzau, wechau, wet
musquaunam
machissu
muckucki
puckhummin
nchickossimunnash
posakunnamun
manoham
nonanum
chowwopha
assawompat
chenawaus
saumpeekunnem
qusquatchim
peyau
tinneapeeyaum
naunt
aumpauchau
ntackowwepeyaun
mishoonhom
quenowau
nowechussettimmin
nowepinnachick
pummenummin teaquash
mattaacucquass!
saunqui
cotchik
manisimmin
4
Compare with "musquant," p. 182
Accompany, go with,
be with
Angry4
Bad, "he is naught
(bad)"
Bare, without wool
Bore through
Burn, I will burn my
rushes
Bury
Buy
Cannot, "I cannot"
Cast overboard
Change money
Churlish, crass, bold
Cloth , tear off too little
Cold , feel
Come (from a place
other than where
speaker is or assumes
to be)
Come for no business
Come for, fetch
Come from hunting
Come in vain, I have
lost my labor (come in
vain)
Come, go by boat
(canoe)
Complain
Confederates, we are
confederates
Confederates,
companions in war
Contribute to the wars
Cook, dress!
Cool, it is cool
Cut
Cut, mow
NARRAGANSETT
VERB
ENGLISH
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
pauochau
kitonckque
Dance
Dead, be dead, perish
II
II
mashackquneaum
mishkom
pauquan
nip5, nup
touagonnausinnum
paushinu
machinam
nokanish!
koshkowwaum
nikkoshkowwaumen
Dearth, distress
Deer , find
Destroy, slaughter
Die
Distress, misery
Divide
Do not like
Down , take it!
Drown
Drowned, We shall be
drowned
Dwell together
Eat (in general)
Eat, after he has eaten
Enumerate
Fall, let something
Feed, graze
Fierce
Fierce
Fight
Flee
Foolish
Friend, be friends
Friends, we are
friends
Go (from a place where
to be)
Go back
Go by, pass, cross over
Go down, come down
Go to feast
Go uphill
Go, Let us be going!
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
178
201, 200, 138, 130,
135, 201
15
173
138, 188
138, 201, 144
74
176, 42
159
108
108
108
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
32
194, 10, 13
13-14
115
75
105
182
182, 132
183
186
40, 41
187, 166, 190
187
II
9, 70, 73, 202
II
II
II
II
II
II
77
72
97, 116, 173
129
75
70
Go, they go
Go, be going from a
place without reference
to where or why
II
II
135
9, 70, 73, 202
poquiitie
metesi
mauchepwut
muchikineanau
panishkokom
natup
chachepis
nishque?
juhet
semu
asso?6, assotu, assoko
wetompat
nowetompatimmin
mauche & memmauche
pittucke
pumme
punnowwau
kekinneawau
taquatchowau
mammaucetuck! or
anakiteunck!
auog
ana?e & anaki & annetei
5
6
Also the root for noun "water".

The ? denotes a "stop" (perhaps glottal stop) that Williams represents with a /t/ or /k/.
4
NARRAGANSETT
VERB
tackhum
sanapaushaum
pockquanam
pompitam
anaskhom
wauapunish!
cattup
auchau
nanompan
upponckquittauwh
wechuset, wepinnat
nqunnuckquus
ahan
auqunnish
nauk
anaquau
cowauwaunemun
cuttiantacompawmen
tatuppauntwa
miawe
nowwunnem
quawupshaw
kunnoonamautuckquash
aunake
aque
aukeeteau
wunnaugonhommin
akes
nummacheke
machetu
soken7
neesquttonckqus
wuttautnish!
mauminikish!
caudnish!
pawtuckquammin
mequaunam
7
"Rain" is based on this root
ENGLISH
Grind
Have bloody flix
Have unknown disease
Hear
Hoe
Hoist up! Lift up!
Hungry
Hunting, fowling
Idle or base
Imprison
Join together
Lame, "I am lame"
Laugh, merry
Let go
Light in weight
Look
Lost, You are lost in
the woods, wandering
Lying, "you are a lying
fellow"
Measure, weigh
Meet, a court
Oversee, order,
command
Overset (in canoe)
Owe, I will owe you
Paint
Peace, capitulate, a
subject
Plant corn
Play, dice game
Play, score
Poor, I am a poor
man
Poor, he is poor
Pour out, rain
Prate, cackle (like hen)
Pull to you!
Pull up! Row lustily!
Tie it hard!
Put off!
Reach
Remember
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
15
198
197
5
98, 99
108, 195
10, 12
88, 172
143
143
187
196
178
39
44, 74
44
132
II
142
II
II
II
165, 164
142
128
II
II
II
II
109
169
192
189, 141, 129
II
II
II
II
98
145-46
178, 179
169
II
II
II
II
II
36
12
45
108
108, 110
II
II
II
119
40
190, 7, 41
NARRAGANSETT
VERB
tauntap
aquei
pittakunnam
wenawwetu
pasuckquish!
chechequnnuwau
noonapummin autashehettit
quaunquaque, quaque
agehucka
natinneha
tatagganish!
peskhom
tiaquonqussu
kupha, cup
ap
kussackquetuck!
kowe, koue, cowe
quo
cussassaqus
quitchemaunta
neepoue
ntannotam
pesuppau
mocquesui
menakissam
qunnauqussu
quitcheta
taubotne aunanamean
naneeshaumo
tussinam
enomphommin
pockhom
peskhommin
nuppamen
wussaumpatammin
ENGLISH
Rest
Rest, He rested
Return, handle cloth,
turn, repent
Rich, he is rich
Rise!
Rob, steal
Room, there is not
enough room for so
many people
Run
Sailing , have wind for
Search
Shake this!
Shoot (as thunderbolt,
gun)
Short, he is
Shut, closed, deaf
Sit, be at home, here
Sit, let us sit down!
Sleep, lodge
Sleep, lodge, dream (w/
compound verbs)
Slow, You are slow
Smell
Stand
Subject, "He is my
subject"
Sweat
Swell, "he is swelled"
Take store
Tall, "he is tall"
Taste
Thank, "I thank you for
your love"
There are two of us
(and other numbers)
Think
Thread, string
Thresh
Thunder, to
To be dying
To look about, view
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TYPE
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II
II
II
74
134
75, 165, 139
II
II
II
II
36
73
76
35
II
II
II
II
II
71, 73
87
37
42
84, 184
II
II
II
II
II
II
53
36, 196, 113
34, 41, 74, 59
74
17, 18, 134, 170, 195,
9, 20, 130
17, 19, 18
II
II
II
II
77
101, 14
6
141
II
II
II
II
II
II
197
196
115
53
12
7
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
194
157
100
84
189
73
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ENGLISH
mouashaw
aumpani
wussaumpatamonck
munnadtom
toceke
toke
awass
kesu, hesu
chowhesu
aumaunemun
sowwushkaw
& sowanishkau
monaskunnemun
sasaumitauwh
anacaus, anakaus
wussuckwh, suckwh
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
Traps , set
Untie
View, a view
Vomit
Wade (in water)
Wake
Warm
Warm, it is warm
Warm, "it is warm"
Wean, to
Weary, tired
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
172
42
73
196
73
19, 97, 116, 173
7, 33
12
12
150
17, 74
Weed, to
Whip
Work, labor
Write, paint
II
II
II
II
100
143
134, 98
121, 192, 61
III
III
III
III
III
189, 193
195
8
163, 6, 34, 40, 194
7, 142, 35, 7
III
44, 3, 70, 201, 4, 77
III
III
III
III
33
43
33
33
III
III
97
71
III
III
III
III
III
III
III
71
110
9
70, 72
114
76
198
TYPE III
wunnishaunta! wunishaunto!
tuspan
nishesh & nishish
noonshem
petite
esh
pawcomwush, paacomwush
tetupsh
aseneshesh!
maumashinnaunamauta!
mouwinne, mowinne (see "meet")
ntoyamaushem
konkenupsh
caupaush
kautanaush
negonsh
nattuckqunuw
mauanish
matux puckquatchick auwaw
Agree, let us agree!

Ail, be ailing
Alone
Cannot, "I cannot"
Come in to enclosed
structure
Come, came, went, go,
gone
Cut wood
Fall down
Fetch small sticks!
Fire, let us make a
good fire!
Gather
Go apace (at a certain
speed), "I go this
speed"
Go apace (same speed)
Go ashore
Go away, depart
Go before
Go fishing
Go slowly or gently
Go to stool, He cannot
go to stool
NARRAGANSETT
VERB
nanowwete
aukewush
pummish
pannau
notate
ENGLISH
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
Go to visit
Go, come by land
Go, travel
Lie, speak untruth
Live alone, keep house
alone
Live, be well
Mad, "I will be mad
with him"
Money, coin
News, tell
Pursue, let us pursue!
Put, lay in place
III
III
III
III
III
195
9, 72, 8
71, 77, 200
55, 162
46
III
III
3, 144
187
III
III
III
III
Recover ("with life

again")
pauchippow
Run for safety
sepagehommauta !
Sail, let us sail!
tunnau, teau, teaw, tunnaw
Say, speak
mauchen
Sick
kukkokash!
Speak!
nippaskanauntum
Starved, "I am almost
starved"
nickqussittaunum
Sweat, perspire, hot I
sweat (perspire)
pawtawtees!
Throw here, hither!
8
wanaumw: ,
wunnaumw:, Truth , speak the
aumun:, anaumw:, naumw:
nnanowweteem
Visit, I am going to
visit
queint
War , make upon
III
156
54, 132
186
203, 19, 33, 91, 116,
199
194, 199
III
III
III
III
III
III
186
108
57, 61, 7, 134
9, 169, 193, 194
57
12
III
83
III
III
42
55, 56, 57, 59, 169
III
195
III
188
IV
168, 134, 12, 195, 38,

108, 38, 13
194
konkeete
nweche kokkewem
natouwompite
aunchemok
onamatta cowauta !
ponam
keete
TYPE IV
paut, pawt
Bring
yo
Bed, keeps in bed ("he IV

keeps his bed")
Break
IV
Carry this!
IV
Deep (water, etc.)
IV
wuttunsin
pokeshat
mauchatous!
wuttauqussin
40, 150
38
73
The symbol ":" is used for root/stem endings to indicate a "reduced vowel" (usually an a, e or i) before
the suffix beginning with a consonant.
8
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ENGLISH
mooshkishattous!
chippachausin
Disclose!
Divides, "the way
divides"
waumatous!
Drink!
wek
Dwell, inhabit, live
numwautous!
Fill the dish!
namite
Find
loas
Grieve
naumpacouin
Hang around neck
(necklace)
augwhattous!
Hang it!
nishin
Lies, is situated
ti
Live, dwell
keesit
Make, complete, create
(see "fire")
wunnite
Mend
naumpat
Pay
nteatchin, yo nteatchin
Shake for cold ("I
shake for cold")
chassaqunsin (correct spelling is Sick, "how long hath
tassaqunsin)
he been sick"?
cutsshitteous!
Wash this!
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TYPE
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(1936 EDITION)
IV
IV
46
69
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
12
4, 3, 20, 31, 136, 180
13
37
201
157
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
IV
46
69
4
57, 130, 131, 13, 110,
192, 132, 133, 134
41
168, 169
195
IV
195
IV
42
V
V
V
V
143
13, 11, 12, 14, 10, 194
16
44, 164, 166
V
V
V
V
144, 189, 143

172
57
142-3, 179, 174, 136
TYPE V
wewhepapun
meych, meitch, meech, mech
waump
mauk, maug
nish
pumm
cuttoan
kumoot, cummoot, kummoot
Bind, tie up
Eat
Enough, have
Give, offer, present,
sell
Kill
Shoot (as an arrow)
Speak, "you speak"
Steal, rob
TYPE A (REGULAR UNTYPED)

Imperative Mode
quttaunsh!
naponsh!
ponewhush!
wequanantash!
9
Feel it!
Lay down!
Lay own your burden!
Light a fire!
A
A
A
A
161
42
78
33
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VERB
mattapsh!
nawwuttunsh!
cheskhosh!
ENGLISH
Sit down!
Throw hither!
Wipe off!
VERB
TYPE
A
A
A
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
6, 7
42, 43
192
TYPE B (REGULAR UNTYPED)

Objective Indicative Mode, I-you (sg.)
cowequetummous
attau, atau
kuttattauamish auke
cuttattauamish
kunnauntatauamish
kunniish
kuttiemaunsh
cummattanish
cummaugakemish
cummauchanish
kuttannoonsh
kunnanaumpasummish
kummuchickonckquatous
cuppaimish
cuckquenamish
cuppompaish
cummachetannakunnamous
Beg, "I pray or intreat

you", "I beseech you"
Buy, sell
Buy land, "I would buy
land of you"
Buy this, "I will buy
this of you"
Buy, "I come to buy
this
Carry, "I will carry
you"
Cook/dress, "I dress
(cook) for you"
Follow, "I will follow
you"
Give land, "I will give
you land"
Guide, "I will conduct
(guide) you
Hire, "I will hire you"
Mercy , mercy
Pay, "I will pay you
well"
Pay, I will pay you
Pray favor, "I pray your
favor"
Stay, "I will stay for
you"
Tear, "I have torn it off
for you"
41, 180
B
B
159-160, 165
165
159
160
73
12
71
166
69
B
B
B
69
189
69
B
B
161
2
70
165
10
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ENGLISH
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
TYPE C (REGULAR UNTYPED)

Objective Indicative or Objective Imperative Mode
natotem
moho
kush
tassam
assame
waunkam, waunckam
man:ne
kukkit
tannum
tam
nauntatau
wammaun, wamm
kemine
pauquanam
taunckquitt
sawhok
nun
kakatom
tatakom
nickummaunam
Ask, inquire
Eat (cannibalize)
Fear
Give nourishment
Give, "give me to eat"
Greet, salute
Hate
Hear, listen
Help
Hinder, bother
Kill , come to
Love
Murder
Open
Pay
Put out
See
Show, tell
Strike
Vanquish
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
68, 131
16
186, 135
15, 14
12
2, 189
187
55, 135
39, 108
35, 36
188
8, 148, 189, 186
76, 143
38
69
41
7
69, 132, 136
113, 183
189
TYPE D (REGULAR UNTYPED)

Objective Indicative Mode, you (sg.)me
cuttassokakomme
coanombuqusse
kuttassokakomme
cowewenaki
11
Deceive, "You deceive

me"
Deceived, "you have
deceived me"
Deceived, "you have
deceived me"
Wronged, "You have
wronged me"
162
162
162
202
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ENGLISH
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
TYPE E (REGULAR UNTYPED)

Varying modes with au root/stem (Type II or III)
naumakiauog
pauchewannauog
mauog
wesauashaui
mamaskishaui
eatch keen anawayean or
enatch keen anawayean
taubot wetayean
taubotne anawayean
quaquawtatatteaug
Go to hell, "They go to
hell or the deep"
Laden,
"They
are
laden"
Lament, "They lament"
Plague, "He has the
plague"
Pox, "he has the pox"
Say, "let all be as you
say" ("Your will shall
be law")
your company"
Thank, "I thank you"
Train, "They train"
136
41
E
E
136
196
E
E
196
141, 190
70
E
E
7
184
TYPE M
Mixed Mode (More than one type)
nadsitta
kemehette
tauntau
wesass
mecaunte
aum
nickatash
sawhe
nockuskau
kekaumw
penowantau
kekuttokau
kepun
awau?
wussenet
Ask, inquire, search

Creep
Climb
Fear
Fight
Fish
Forsake
Go forth
Meet
Scorner, mocker
Speak another language
Speak with
Tie, Make fast
Use
Woo
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
142
172
97
186
183
114
74
41
73, 74
186
9, 55
35, 57, 189
186, 110
44
146
12
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VERB
ENGLISH
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
TYPE U
Unclassifiable Mode
togwhan
whauwhautowwow anawat
Adrift, at sea
Alarm, there is an
alarm
U
U
108
184
aquie wussaumowash!
Ask too much! Do not

ask too much!
Ask too much, "You
ask too much"
Associate, he is my
associate
Believe
Believe,
obey,
"I
believe you"
Bent, crooked
Black, he is in black,
mourning
Born, How many
years since you were
born?
Burns,
My
body
burns
Buy, "I come to buy"
Buy, I have bought
Buy, sell
Call!
I came
Cannot tell, "I don't
know
Care, "Have a care"
Cease, I will cease,
stop (see do not do,
Part II
Cheer, Be of good
cheer
Cold (weather)
Cold, "I am cold"
Come in, the sea
comes in too fast
Come, "I came that
way"
Come, "they come"
162
162, 164
187
U
U
56
59
U
U
42
201
66
195
U
U
U
U
U
U
159, 160
160
159-60, 165
35
3
9, 57, 131
U
U
40
179
202
U
U
U
18, 75, 82, 83

44
109
3, 4
cosaumawem
nechuse ewo
cuppannawa
coannaumatous
wauki
sequttoi
tashecautummo cuttappemus
wame kussopita nuhock

nummouanaquish
nummautanaquash
tattauam, attau, atau
wecum!
nowaum
tatta
peewauqun
ntaquie
kutchimoke
tak, taq, tahk, tauk
nuckqusquatch
wussaum pechepausha
yo nowaum
umwock
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VERB
ENGLISH
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
awanick paudhuck
Come, who comes

there?
110
cowaum
anawat, anow, anawayean
cutehanshishaumo
Come, "you come"

Command, say, speak
Company, How many
are in your company?
Confusion, panic,
hubbub
Cook, roast
Courage, You
(plural)--"Be of good
courage
Cover me! (w/blanket)
Crooked (see bent)
Crooked, winding
Cry, he cries
Cure he is acting his
cure
Curing, the priest is
curing him
Cut off head
Damaged, in need of
repair, gapt
Dead, he is gone
(dead) forever
Dead, he is nearly
dead
Deaf, I am deaf
Debts, I come to
collect debts
Do not ask too much!
Do so, Why do you do
so?
Do, fare, "How do you
do?"
Done ill, "I have done
ill"
Dry
Dry, "To dry this or
that"
Dying, he cannot live
long
U
U
U
3
7, 139, 141, 90
8
184
U
U
11, 114
109
U
U
U
U
U
195
46
46
43
199
198
U
U
50
165
201
201
U
U
196
168
U
U
162
143
144
U
U
83
42
200
wopwawnonckquat
aup
maumaneeteantass
puttuckhumma!
penayi
pemisquai
mauo
yo wutteantawwaw
powwaw nippetea
timequassin
waskishaas
michemeshawi
chachewunnea
ncupsa
nnadgecom
aquie wussaumowosh!
tawhitch yo enean
as kuttaaquompsin
nummachieme
paq
pawsunnummin
pausawut kitonckquewa
14
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VERB
wunnaumwauonck
anuckquaque
naus!
wame kussopita nohock
nnanotissu
natatupe note (or) chickot
muchickautau
ptowei
tuttepacunnish
nowannechick
& nowannesin
aumanskitteaug
pepemoi
taquat
yo naumwauteg
machage nkockie
commesim
nanoue
wuttammasin, petassina
squutame
wuttush!
commeinsh
nowemacaunash
hom, om, oom, um, waum
yo aunta, yo cuttaunan
nittome (see "hom...")
tunock kuttoyeaim
Kuttome (see "hom...")
wunnetu nitta
neene cuthomwock
wunnetu
as cowequassin
as cowequassunnummis
kukkeechequaubenitch
noteaugo
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Faithfulness,
truthfulness
Far
Fetch!
Fever, fire
Fever, I have a fever
Fever, My body
burns; I am all on
fire
Fine, nice, pretty
Fly, it is fled
Fold, fold it up!
Forget,
"I
have
forgotten"
Fortify, they
Fowl, he is gone to
(hunt) fowl
Frozen, iced
Full, thus full
Get, "I get nothing
Give, "give it to me"
Give me (this or that)
Give me tobacco
Give me your pipe
Give me!
Give, "I give to you"
Give, "I'll give these
things"
Come, go from a place
other
than
where
speaker is
Go, "go that way"
Go, "I go"
Go, "whither go you"
Go, "you go"
Good, "My heart is
good, pure"
Go, "now they go off"
Good, pure, proper
Greeting, "good
morrow (day)"
Hang, "You shall be
hanged"
Have, I have
money' " (wampum)
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
57
U
U
U
U
U
72
35
195
195
195
U
U
U
U
162
91
161
5, 75
U
U
166
88
U
U
U
U
U
U
U
U
U
U
75
39
163
38, 162, 163, 44, 161
164
15
15
43
44, 162
129, 169
3-4, 8, 70, 100
U
U
U
U
U
69
4, 70, 110
70
4, 70
51, 53, 189
U
U
U
53
2
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VERB
nitasha
wusseheposh!
aununema
yo aphettit
taunt
kusopita, kussopita
ntiyu, ntio
nippansinnea
mat mesh nowahea
nneesnneanna
wau, wawwau, waww
nowahea
nipponamauoog
namacowke
cupshitteauag
nowetipo
nowawwon
yimmi
awetawatuock
wussenetuock
cummauntussakou
cuppissittone
nowannakese
yo wuttutan
netashin, newutchashinea
cosaumakese
nipposkiss
ussaw
ENGLISH
Have, "I have"
Heave out the water!
Help me!
Here, when they are
here
High, "sun so high"
Hot, it's hot (see
"burn")
Hunt, I hunt
Innocent,
"I
am
innocent"
Innocent, I was
innocent (knew
nothing)
Kill, I have killed
two (deer, etc.)
Know
Know, "I knew"
Lame, I am lame
Lay nets, I lay nets for
them (fish, animals)
Lend, lend me
Lie, they lie in wait
(ambush)
Like, I like this
Lose way, "I lose my
way"
Make this for me
Marry, they make a
match, live together in
same wetu
Marry, They marry
Missed, You have
missed him
Mistaken, "you are
mistaken"
Mistold,
"I
have
mistold"
Moon, the moon so
high
More, there is no more
Much, You have told
too much
Naked, "I am naked"
Name
VERB
TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
U
U
U
U
15, 40
110
39
59
U
U
63
13, 195
U
U
175
144
38
172
U
U
U
U
57, 38, 144, 70

38, 57
196
91
U
U
38
186
U
U
15
70
U
U
61
146
U
U
146
77
132
164, 168, 162
63
U
U
33
164
U
U
118, 119
5-6
16
NARRAGANSETT
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wesuonck
wesuonckgonnakaunes
taantussaweitch
matnowesuonck
ntussawese
tahena
tahossowetam
cowawwunnaunchim
keeskwh
maunauog
& wussaumemaunauog
anit
waupaupunish!
wunnia naynayoumewot
nummokokunitch
keesauname!
nawont
nawonash
negautowash!
nnegauchemish
ntatuppe wunnepog
awaun necawni aum piasha
wetapwauwwas
tawho
see destroy
wunna kukkussaquam
nkataquam
machemoqut
puck
wutttamauog
wunnashpishan
antow, antau, auntow
natotema
17
ENGLISH
Name, a
Name, call
Name, "do you ask my
name"
Name, "I have no
name"
Name, "my name is"
Name, "what is his
name"
Name, "what the name
of it"
News, " he tells false
news "
Pay
People, there are too
many
Putrefied, it is
Raise up!, Lift up!
(head, etc.,)
Rides, He rides on
horseback
Rob, "I am robbed"
Save me!
Saw, he saw
See, "I did not see these
things"
Send for him!
Send, He sends to me
Shake, "I shake as a
leaf"
Shot, who fired the
first shot
Sit and talk
Slain
Slaughter
Sleep much, "You
sleep much"
Sleep, "I am sleepy"
Smell, it smells ill
Smoke
Smoke tobacco
Snatch away
Speak
Speak on, continue
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TYPE
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
U
U
U
5
133
5
U
U
5
6
54
U
U
168
60
U
U
175, 101
195
72
U
U
U
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183
186
134
142, 201
U
U
U
42, 43
43
195
183
U
U
57
188
20
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U
U
U
U
U
U
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32
45
43
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131
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VERB
enapwauwaw, eississumo
kuttaskwhe,
kuttasha
nqenouhick wuttin
saumpi
minak, minik
cumminakese
yo autant
aquechmock
mat mesh nummammenash
mat nowewuttammo
cunnoonakese
& cosaumakese
ntunnan
kuttunnan
nowannakese
netashin, newutchasinea
noonapuock
cawk
petasinna,
wuttammasin
tanocki, tanocksha
anaqushento
mucco
noonamautuckquawhe
nowauwon
cuppittous
yo iish wuttanho
nickquehick
matwauonck
apissuma!
minioquesu
cumminiocquese
wenawetuonckon
ENGLISH
VERB
TYPE
Speak, "He speaks U

Indian"
Stay, "stay for me"
U
Stay, wait, I stay for
the wind
Straight
Strong
Strong,
"you
are
strong"
Sun, the sun so high
Swim, they swim
Take, "I did not take
them"
Take, I take none
(tobacco)
Tell too much, "You
have told too much"
Tell, "I tell"
Tell, "you tell"
Tell, I have mistold
There is no more
They don't have enough
room for everyone
Thirsty
Tobacco, "Give me
tobacco"
Torn, it is torn
Trade, let us trade
True, "It is true you
say"
Trust me
Truth, "I shall know the
truth"
Understand, hear, "I
understand you"
Use
this
staff
(Walking stick)
Want, "I want it"
War, battle
Warm this for me!
Weak, "he is weak"
Weak, you are weak
Wealth
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56, 54
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42
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NARRAGANSETT
VERB
nsouwwussanneme
tuckiiuash
taupowaw
wuttunnantu
yo anawhonw
wesquaubenan
19
ENGLISH
Weary, I am weary
from speaking
Where are they?
Wise speaker
Worth it, it is
Wounded, I am
wounded
Wrap up (deceased) in
mats
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LISTED ALPHABETICAL
BY NARRAGANSETT
achie
agehucka
ahan
akes
aket
an
anacaus, anakaus
anaquau
anaqushento
anaskhom
anit
anoce wenawash!
ap
ap
aquie wussaumowosh!
assame
assawompat
au
auchau
augwhattous!
9
see Part II
Laugh, merry
Play, score
Count money
Going
beyond,
exceeding
Go, be going from a
to where or why
Work, labor
Look
Trade, let us trade
Hoe
Command, say, speak
Putrefied, it is
Hire him!
Speak
Sitting, staying
Change money
Foolish
Buy, sell
Going to
Hunting, fowling
Hang it!
II
II
II
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178
178, 179
164
general root
II
9, 70, 73
II
II
U
II
U
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134, 98
44
159
98, 99
7, 139, 141, 90
175, 101
69
8-9, 55, 141-42
general root
34, 41, 74, 59
162
12
155, 156
40, 41
159-60, 165
general root
88, 172
46
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NARRAGANSETT
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aukeeteau
aukewush
aum
aumanskitteaug
aumaun
aumaunemun
aumpani
aumpauchau
aunake
aunchemok
aununema
auog
aup
auqunnish
awanagusantowosh!
awanick paudhuck
ENGLISH
Plant corn
Go, come by land
Fish
Fortify, they
Take away
Wean, to
Untie
Come from hunting
Paint
News, tell
Help me!
Go, they go
Cook, roast
Let go
Speak English!
Come, who comes
there?
awass
Warm
awau?
Use
Shot, who fired the
first shot
awetawatuock
Marry, they make a
same wetu
cattaunt
cattite
cattup
Hungry
caudnish!
Put off!
caupaush
Go ashore
cawk
Thirsty
chachepis
Fierce
chachewunnea
Dead, he is nearly
dead
tassaqunsin)
he been sick"?
chechequnnuwau
Rob, steal
chenawaus
chesam,chesammat
Pain, sore
cheskhosh!
Wipe off!
chippachausin
Divides, "the way
divides"
chowhesu
Warm, "it is warm"
chowwopha
Cast overboard
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39, 144, 150
150
42
172, 176
192
54, 132
39
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11, 114
39
8
110
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7, 33
44
183
146
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15, 172
10, 12
119
110
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201
IV
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186, 166
194, 195
192
69
II
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NARRAGANSETT
VERB
coannaumatous
coanombuqusse
commeinsh
commesim
cosaumakese
cosaumawem
cotchik
cowaum
cowauwaunemun
cowawwunnaunchim
cowequetummous
cowewenaki
cuckquenamish
cummattanish
cummauchanish
cummaugakemish
cummauntussakou
cumminakese
cumminiocquese
cunnoonakese
& cosaumakese
cuppaimish
cuppannawa
cuppissittone
cuppittous
cuppompaish
ENGLISH
Believe,
obey,
"I
believe you"
Deceived, "you have
deceived me"
Much, You have told
too much
Ask too much, "You
ask too much"
Cut
Come, "you come"
news "
Wronged, "You have
wronged me"
favor"
for you"
you"
(guide) you
you land"
Missed, You have
missed him
Strong,
"you
are
strong"
Weak, you are weak
Tell too much, "You
have told too much"
Pay, I will pay you
Believe
Mistaken, "you are
mistaken"
understand you"
you"
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59
162
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38, 162, 163, 44, 161
164
162, 164
II
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3
132
54
41, 180
202
165
71
69
166
77
52
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53
164, 167
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U
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132
56, 54
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NARRAGANSETT
VERB
cupshitteauag
cussassaqus
cussawontap
cutehanshishaumo
cutsshitteous!
cuttassokakomme
cuttattauamish
cuttiantacompawmen
cuttoan
cuttun
eenantowash!
enomphommin
esh
it (word ending)
juhet
kakatom
kautanaush
keesauname!
keesit
keeskwh
keete
kekaumw
kekine
kekinneawau
kekuttokau
kemehette
kemine
kepun
kesu, hesu
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ENGLISH
(ambush)
Slow, You are slow
Headache
Company, How many
Wash this!
me"
this of you"
fellow"
Speak, "you speak"
Launch
be law")
Speak Indian!
Speak, "He speaks
Indian"
Thread, string
gone
other
than
where
speaker is
see Part II
Fight
Show, tell
Go away, depart
Save me!
(see "fire")
Pay
Recover ("with life
again")
Scorner, mocker
Look at, behold
Go to feast
Speak with
Creep
Murder
Tie, Make fast
Warm, it is warm
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141, 190
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44, 3, 70, 201, 4, 77
3-4, 8, 70, 100
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69, 132, 136
9
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57, 130, 131, 13, 110,
192, 132, 133, 134
168
194, 199
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129
35, 57, 189
172
76, 143
186, 110
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NARRAGANSETT
VERB
ENGLISH
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kinnequass!
kitonckque
Steer (canoe)!
I
II
konkeete
konkenupsh
koshkowwaum
kowe, koue, cowe
Live, be well
Drown
Sleep, lodge
III
III
II
II
kukkit
Hear, listen
Hang, "You shall be
hanged"
Speak!
well"
Steal, rob
Mercy , mercy
Buy, "I come to buy
this
you"
Owe, I will owe you
Shut, closed, deaf
Fear
Hot, it's hot (see
"burn")
Cheer, Be of good
cheer
Stay, "stay for me"
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U
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201, 200, 138, 130,
135, 201
3, 144
71
108
17, 18, 134, 170, 195,
9, 20, 130
55, 135
144
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36, 196, 113
186, 135
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46, 41
201
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175
36
kukkokash!
kunnanaumpasummish
kunnauntatauamish
kunniish
kupha, cup
kush
kusopita, kussopita
kussackquetuck!
kutchimoke
kuttannoonsh
kuttaskwhe,
kuttasha
kuttassokakomme
kuttattauamish auke
kuttiemaunsh
kuttome (see "hom...")
kuttunnan
loas
ma (word beginning)
machage
machage nkockie
machemoqut
machetu
Deceived, "you have

deceived me"
land of you"
(cook) for you"
Go, "you go"
Tell, "you tell"
Grieve
see Part II
see Part II
Get, "I get nothing
Smell, "It smells ill
Poor, he is poor
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machinam
machissu
mamaskishaui
mammauchetuck! or
anakiteunck!
man:ne
manisimmin
manoham
mashackquneaum
mat, matta
mat mesh nowahea

matnowesuonck
mat nowewuttammo
mattaacucquass!
mattapsh!
matwauonck
maua, mau, maut
mauanish
mauataun
mauchatous!
mauche & memmauche
mauchen
mauchepwut
mauk, maug
maumaneeteantass
mauminikish!
maunauog
& wussaumemaunauog
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ENGLISH
Do not like
Bad, "He is naught
(bad)"
Pox, "He has the pox"
Hate
Cut, mow
Buy
Dearth, distress
see Part II
Innocent, I was
innocent (knew
nothing)
them"
Name, "I have no
name"
Take, I take none
(tobacco)
Cook,dress!
Sit down!
go to stool
War, battle
see Part II
Go slowly or gently
Fire, tend
Carry this!
to be)
Sick
sell
Courage, You
(plural)--be of good
courage
Fire, let us make a
good fire!
Tie it hard!
many
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6, 7
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44, 164, 166
109
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mauo
mauog
mecaunte
mechimuash!
menakissam
mequaunam
meshannant, meyaont
mesh (word beginning)
metesi
miawe
michemeshawi
minak, minik
minioquesu
mish
mishauntowash!
mishkom
mishoonhom
missin
mocquesui
moho
monaskunnemun
mooshkishattous!
mouashaw
mucco
muchickautau
muchikineanau
muckucki
munnadtom
musquant
musquaunam
nad
nadsitta
namacowke
namite
nanantowash!
naneeshaumo
nanompan
10
ENGLISH
Cry, he cries
Fight
Load it!
Take store
Remember
Scorn, indignation
see Part II
Eat (in general)
Eat
Meet, a court
Dead, he is gone
(dead) forever
Strong
Weak, "he is weak"
Dead , name the
Speak out!
Deer , find
Come, go by boat
(canoe)
Captive , take
Eat (cannibalize)
Weed, to
Disclose!
Traps , set
Gather
say"
Fine, nice, pretty
Enumerate
Bare, without wool
Vomit
Angry
Angry10
Bring, bearing
Ask, inquire, search
Lend, lend me
Find
Speak plain!
There are two of us
(and other numbers)
Idle or base
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182, 183, 123, 138
general root
142
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nanoue
nanowwete
naponsh!
natatupe note (or) chickot
natinneha
natotem
natotema
natouwompite
nattuckqunuw
natup
naumakiauog
naumpacouin
naumpat
naunt
nauntatau
naus!
nawonash
nawont
nawwuttunsh!
nchickossimunnash
ncupsa
nechuse ewo
neepoue
neesquttonckqus
negautowash!
negonsh
niaut
niautamwock
nickat
nickatash
nickquehick
nickquenum
nickqussittaunum
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ENGLISH
Go to visit
Lay down!
Fever, My body
burns; I am all on
fire
Search
Ask, inquire
Speak on, continue
Money, coin
Go fishing
Feed, graze
hell or the deep"
Hang around neck
(necklace)
Pay
Come for, fetch
Kill , come to
Fetch!
things"
Saw, he saw
Throw hither!
rushes
Deaf, I am deaf
Associate, he is my
associate
Stand
Send for him!
Go before
There is no more
Carry on one's back
Laden,
"They
are
laden"
Leave, depart
Forsake
Want, "I want it"
Go, "I am returning
home to my family"
sweat (perspire)
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114
105
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IV
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6, 35, 34, 33
188
35
142, 201
U
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42, 43
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U
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70, 72
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nickummaunam
nikkoshkowwaumen
nip11, nup
nippansinnea
nippaskanauntum
nipponamauoog
nipposkiss
nish
nishesh & nishish
nishin
nishque?
nitasha
nkataquam
nnadgecom
nnanowweteem
nnanotissu
nneesnneanna
nnegauchemish
nockuskau
nokanish!
nonanum (see "noonshem")
noonamautuckquawhe
noonapuock
noonshem (see "nonanum")
notate
noteaugo
noteshem
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ENGLISH
Vanquish
drowned
Die
Innocent,
"I
am
innocent"
starved"
Naked, "I am naked"
(see "robbed")
Kill
Alone
Lies, is situated
Fierce
Have, "I have"
Go, "I go"
Debts, I come to
collect debts
visit
Kill, I have killed
two (deer, etc.)
Sorry, I am sorry
Meet
Down , take it!
Cannot, "I cannot"
Trust me
Room, there is not
enough room for so
many people
room for everyone
Cannot, "I cannot"
alone
Have, I have
money' " (wampum)
see "esh"
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118, 119
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182, 132
15, 40
4, 70, 110
17
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III
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144, 201
73, 74
108
163
167
35
60
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46
169

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nowahea
nowannakese
nowannakese
nowannechick
& nowannesin
nowant or nowaunt
nowaum
nowauwon
nowawwon
nowechussettimmin
nowemacaunash
nowepinnachick
nowetipo
nowetompatimmin
nowwunnem
nqenouhick wuttin
nqunnuckquus
nsouwwussanneme
ntackowwepeyaun
ntannotam
ntaquie
ntiyu, ntio
ntoyamaushem
ntunnan
ntussawese
nuckqusquatch
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ENGLISH
Know, "I knew"
Mistold,
"I
have
mistold"
Forget,
"I
have
forgotten"
Grieve
I came
truth"
way"
confederates
things"
Confederates,
companions in war
Like, I like this
Friends, we are
friends
Oversee,
order,
command
the wind
Lame, "I am lame"
Weary, I am weary
from speaking
vain)
Subject, "He is my
subject"
Part II
Shake for cold ("I
shake for cold")
Hunt, I hunt
speed), "I go this
speed"
Tell, "I tell"
Name, "my name is"
Cold, "I am cold"
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164, 168, 162
5, 75
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57, 38, 144
70
II
187
129, 169
II
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II
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nummacheke
ENGLISH
VERB
TYPE
pauchippow
paumpmaunt
pauochau
Poor, I am a poor
man
ill"
Buy, I have bought
Rob, "I am robbed"
Fill the dish!
See
To be dying
Mad, "I will be mad
with him"
Put on!
om
Going, coming from
Opening
Cast away, divorce
Fall, let something
see
Part
II
("A
modifier...")
Lie, speak untruth
Disbelieve
Dry
Rise!
Laden,
"They
are
laden"
Run for safety
Dance
paupautuckquash!
pauquan
pauquanam
pak, pahk, pohq
pake
paushinu
paut, pawt
Hold water!
Destroy, slaughter
Open
Opening
Cast away, divorce
Divide
Bring
pawsunnummin
Cut wood
III
Dry, "To dry this or U
that"
Throw here, hither!
III
Reach
II
Come, be present
I
nummachieme
nummautanaquash
nummokokunitch
nummouanaquish
numwautous!
nun
nuppamen
nweche kokkewem
ocquash!
see "hom"
onamatta cowauta !
oo, hom
pak, pahk, pohq
pake
panishkokom
panna
pannau
pannawaut
paq
pasuckquish!
pauchewannauog
pawtawtees!
pawtuckquammin
pee
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general root
general root
150, 44, 183, 108
75
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2, 3
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general root
150, 44, 183, 108
176, 42
168, 134, 12, 195, 38,
108, 38, 13
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NARRAGANSETT
VERB
peewauqun
peeyaunt
pemisquai
penayi
penowantau
pepemoi
pepenash!
peskhom
pesuppau
petasinna,
wuttammasin
petite
peyau
pitch (word beginning)

pittakunnam
pittucke
pockhom
pockquanam
pockun
pok
pokeshat
pompitam
ponam
ponewhush!
poquiitie
posakunnamun
potauntash!
potawash!
powwaw nippetea
ptowei
puck
puckhummin
pum
pumm
pumme
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(1936 EDITION)
Care, "Have a care"

Pray
Crooked, winding
Crooked (see bent)
Fowl, he is gone to
(hunt) fowl
Choice , take!
gun)
Sweat
"Give me tobacco"
U
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20, 130
46
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9, 55
88
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II
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84, 184
II
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Come in to enclosed
structure
Come (from a place
other
than
where
to be)
see Part II
turn, repent
Go back
Thresh
Blind
Break
Break
Hear
Put, lay in place
III
7, 142, 35, 7
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75, 165, 139
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100
197
197
general root
40, 150
5
203, 19, 33, 91, 116,
199
78
32
202
34
34
198

Dwell together
Bury
Fire, blow!
Fire, make!
curing him
Fly, it is fled
Smoke
Bore through
Passing by, crossing
Shoot (as an arrow)
IV
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172
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185
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pummish
punnowwau
puttuckhumma!
quamph
quaquawtatatteaug
quaunquaque, quaque
quawupshaw
quenowau
queint
quitchemaunta
quitcheta
qunnauqussu
quo
qusquatchim
qussuck
qussut
quttaunsh!
sanapaushaum
sasaumitauwh
saumpeekunnem
saumpi
saunqui
sawhe
sawhok
see destroy
seip, seep, sepa
gsekine
semu
sepagehommauta !
sequttoi
shookekineas!
sog, sok
soken12
sowwushkaw
& sowanishkau
squutame
tackhum
tahena
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Go, travel
Go down, come down
Dish out, serve
Train, "They train"
Run
Overset (in canoe)
Complain
War , make upon
Smell
Taste
Tall, "he is tall"
compound verbs)
Cold , feel
Heavy (stone)
Move residence
Feel it!
Have bloody flix
Whip
Straight
Cool, it is cool
Go forth
Put out
Slaughter
Stretching, extending in
tme or space
Dislike, unwilling
Flee
Sail, let us sail!
mourning
Look at this!
Out-going (of water,
etc.)
Pour out, rain
Weary, tired
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general root
II
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Give me your pipe

U
Grind
II
Name, "what is his U
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tahossowetam
tam
tammaunt
tannot
tannum
tanocki, tanocksha
taquat
taquatchowau
tassam
tatagganish!
tatakom
tatta
tatuppauntwa
taubacominash
taubat, taup, taub
taubot wetayean
taubotne anawayean
taubotne aunanamean
tauhauna
taunckquitt
taunt
tauntap
tauntau
taupowaw
tawhitch yo enean
tawho
teant
tetupsh
ti
tiaquonqussu
timequassin
tinnea, tinea, tin
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ENGLISH
of it"
Cold (weather)
Hinder, bother
Busy, take care of,
heed
Help
Torn, it is torn
Frozen, iced
Go uphill
Born, How many
born?
Give nourishment
Shake this!
Strike
know
Buy, sell
Measure, weigh
Big enough
Thank
your company"
your love"
see Part II
Pay
High, "sun so high"
Rest
Climb
Wise speaker
so?
Slain
Think
Fall down
Live, dwell
Short, he is
Cut off head
Sounds
with
no
apparent meaning, used
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ENGLISH
in
verbs
as
"ornamentation"
or
perhaps as emphasis
tinneapeeyaum
toceke
Wade (in water)
togwhan
Adrift, at sea
toke
Wake
tou, taa, toc, tuc, tunnock, tunna
see "tou...", Part II,
Narragansett section
touagonnausinnum
Distress, misery
tuckiiuash
Where are they?
tunnant
Think
Say, speak
tunock kuttoyeaim
tuppaunt
Consider
tuspan
Ail, be ailing
tussinam
Think
tuttepacunnish
Fold, fold it up!
um
see "hom..."
umwock
Come, "they come"
upponckquittauwh
Imprison
ussaw
Name
wachaun
Have, keep
Burns,
My
body
burns
wammaun, wamm
Love
wanaumw:13,
wunnaumw:, Truth , speak the
aumun:, anaumw:
wannan
Forget
wap, wab
Seeing
waskishaas
Damaged, in need of
repair, gapt
wau, wawwau, waww
Know
wauapunish!
Hoist up! Lift up!
wauki
Bent, crooked
waum
S
ee "hom..."
waumatous!
Drink!
waump
Enough, have
waunkam, waunckam
Greet, salute
waupaupunish!
Raise up!, Lift up!
(head, etc.,)
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waut
wauwhautowash!
wawhush
wawhush
wechuset, wepinnat
wecont
wecum!
weeteant
wek
wekine
wenawetuonckon
wenawwetu
wequanantash!
wesass
wesauashaui
wesquaubenan
wesuonck
wetapwauwwas
wetompat, wepinnat
wetzau, wechau, wet
wewhepapun
wopwawnonckquat
wunna
wunna kukkussaquam
wunnashpishan
wunnaugonhommin
wunnaumwauonck
wunnetu
wunnetu nitta
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Understand,
believe,
know
Meeting , call!
Carry on one's back
Carry on one's back
Join together
Glad, happy, have a
mind to
Call!
Glad, be glad
Like
Wealth
Rich, he is rich
Light a fire!
Fear
Plague, "He has the
plague"
mats
Name, a
Sit and talk
Friend, be friends,
confederates
Accompany, go with,
be with
Bind, tie up
Alarm, there is an
alarm
Confusion, panic,
hubbub
see Part II
Sleep much, "You
sleep much"
Snatch away
Play, dice game
Faithfulness,
truthfulness
Good, pure, proper
Good, "My heart is
good, pure"
Rides, He rides on
horseback
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189, 193
NARRAGANSETT
VERB
wunnite
wussaum pechepausha
wussaumpatammin
wussaumpatamonck
wusseheposh!
wussenet
wussenetuock
wussuckwh, suckwh
wuttat
wuttauqussin
wuttautnish!
wutttamauog
wuttunnantu
wuttush!
yimmi
yo anawhonw
yo iish wuttanho
yo
wuttunsin
yo aphettit
yo autant
yo naumwauteg
yo nowaum
yo wutteantawwaw
yo wuttutan
ENGLISH
Mend
Come in, the sea
comes in too fast
To look about, view
View, a view
Woo
Marry, They marry
Write, paint
Give me tobacco
Drink
Deep (water, etc.)
Pull to you!
Smoke tobacco
Worth it, it is
Give me!
Make this for me
Wounded, I am
wounded
Use
this
staff
(Walking stick)
Bed, keeps in bed ("he
keeps his bed")
Here, when they are
here
Go, "go that way"
Full, thus full
Come, "I came that
way"
cure
Moon, the moon so
high
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wetzau, wechau, wet

togwhan
tuspan
nishesh & nishish
see lie, they lie in wait
musquanam
musquant
aquie wussaumowash!
natotem
see adrift
muckucki
see idle
see sit
kutchimoke
see accompany
yo wuttunsin
cowequetummous
see cut off head

see look at
37
Accompany, go with,
be with
Adrift, at sea
Ail, be ailing
Alarm, there is an
alarm
Alone
Ambush
Angry
Angry
Ask too much! Do not
ask too much!
Ask, inquire
At sea
Bare, without wool
Base, idle
Be at home
Be of good cheer
(plural)
Be with, go together
Bed, keeps in bed ("he
keeps his bed")
see beseech
Behead
Behold, look at
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195
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cuppannawa
coannaumatous
wauki
taubacominash
wewhepapun
sequttoi
pockun
puckhummin
pokeshat
paut, pawt
nad
see "fire", Part II
nchickossimunnash
posakunnamun
see wrap up
tammaunt
nummautanaquash
manoham
kuttattauamish auke
cuttattauamish
kunnauntatauamish
nummouanaquish
wecum!
see meeting
see "name, my name is"
see "come, come..."
tatta
ENGLISH
Believe
(see understand)
Believe, obey, "I
believe you"
Bent, crooked
(see crooked)
Big enough
Bind, tie up
mourning
Blind
Bore through
Born, How many
born?
Break
Bring
Bring, bearing
burn
rushes
Burns,
My
body
burns
Bury
Bury
Busy, take care of,
heed
Buy, I have bought
Buy
Buy, sell
land of you"
this of you"
Buy, "I come to buy
this
Buy, sell
Call!
Call a meeting
Called, I am called
Came
know"
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165
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159-60, 165
35
9, 57, 131
38
NARRAGANSETT
VERB
nonanum
noonshem
missin
peewauqun
niaut
wawhush
mauchatous!
kunniish
pake
chowwopha
assawompat
ntaquie
kutchimoke
pepenash!
chenawaus
tauntau
saumpeekunnem
see money
see shake for cold
qusquatchim
peyau
see go, come by land

see go down
tinneapeeyaum
naunt
aumpauchau
petite
ntackowwepeyaun
wussaum pechepausha
yo nowaum
umwock
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Cannot, "I cannot"
Cannot, "I cannot"
Captive, take
Care, "Have a care"
Carry on one's back
Carry on one's back
Carry this!
you"
Cast away, divorce
Cast overboard
Change money
Part II)
Cheer, Be of good
cheer
Choice , take!
Climb
Coin
Cold
Cold (weather)
Cold , feel
Come (from a place
other
than
where
to be)
Come by land
Come down
Come for, fetch
Come from hunting
Come in to enclosed
structure
vain)
Come in, the sea
comes in too fast
Come, "I came that
way"
Come, "they come"
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NARRAGANSETT
VERB
awanick paudhuck
cowaum
pee
esh
mishoonhom
see associate
see Thank you for
company
cutehanshishaumo
quenowau
nowechussettimmin
nowepinnachick
wopwawnonckquat
tuppaunt
see speak on
aup
mattaacucquass!
kuttiemaunsh
saunqui
aket
maumaneeteantass
puttuckhumma!
kemehette
penayi
pemisquai
see go by, pass
mauo
yo wutteantawwaw
ENGLISH
Come, who comes
there?
Come, "you come"
Come, be present
gone
other
than
where
speaker is
Come, go by boat
(canoe)
Command, say, speak
Companion, he is my
your Company
Company, How many
Complain
confederates
Confederates,
companions in war
Confusion, panic,
hubbub
Consider
Continue speaking
Cook, roast
Cook,dress!
(cook) for you"
Cool, it is cool
Count money
Courage, You
(plural)--be of good
courage
Creep
Crooked (see bent)
Crooked, winding
Cross over
Cry, he cries
cure
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powwaw nippetea
cotchik
Timequassin
manisimmin
waskishaas
pauochau
mish
michemeshawi
chachewunnea
kitonckque
mashackquneaum
ncupsa
nnadgecom
cuttassokakomme
coanombuqusse
kuttassokakomme
wuttauqussin
mishkom
see leave
see long for
pauquan
nip14, nup
pannawaut
mooshkishattous!
quamph
sekine
touagonnausinnum
paushinu
chippachausin
14
41
ENGLISH
curing him
Cut
Cut off head
Cut wood
Cut, mow
Damaged, in need of
repair, gapt
Dance
Dead , name the
Dead, he is gone
(dead) forever
Dead, he is nearly
dead
Dearth, distress
Deaf, I am deaf
Debts, I come to
collect debts
me"
Deceived, "you have
deceived me"
Deceived, "you have
deceived me"
Deep (water, etc.)
Deer , find
Depart
Desire
Destroy, slaughter
Die
(see to be dying)
Disbelieve (see do not
believe)
Disclose!
Dish out, serve
Dislike, unwilling
Distress, misery
(see dearth)
Divide
Divides, "the way
divides"
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see cast away
aquie wussaumowosh!
see disbeleive
machinam
tawhitch yo enean
nummachieme
nokanish!
see sleep, lodge, dream
see cook, roast
wuttat
waumatous!
koshkowwaum
nikkoshkowwaumen
paq
pawsunnummin
poquiitie
wek
pausawut kitonckquewa
see give me to eat
moho
metesi
mauchepwut
waump
muchikineanau
see "stretching"
wunnaumwauonck
tetupsh
panishkokom
anuckquaque
kush
wesass
see go to feast
natup
quttaunsh!
naus!
aseneshesh!
ENGLISH
Divorce
Do not believe
Do not like
so?
ill"
Down , take it!
Dream
Dress (prepare) food
Drink
Drink!
Drown
drowned
Dry
Dry, "To dry this or
that"
Dwell together
Dying, he cannot live
long
Eat
Eat
Eat (cannibalize)
Eat (in general)
Enough, have
Enumerate
Extended in time or
space
Faithfulness,
truthfulness
Fall down
Fall, let something
Far
Fear
Fear
Feast
Feed, graze
Feel it!
Fetch!
Fetch small sticks!
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wame kussopita nohock
nnanotissu
natatupe note (or)
natatupe chickot
chachepis
nishque?
juhet
mecaunte
numwautous!
namite
muchickautau
see shot
potauntash!
potawash!
mauataun
aum
semu
ptowei
tuttepacunnish
cummattanish
wannan
nowannechick
& nowannesin
nickatash
aumanskitteaug
pepemoi
see hunting, fowling
wetompat, wepinnat
nowetompatimmin
taquat
yo naumwauteg
see "fetch!"
machage nkockie
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Fever, fire
Fever, My body
burns; I am all on
fire
Fierce
Fierce
Fight
Fight
Fill the dish!
Find
Fine, nice, pretty
Fire a shot (arrow, etc.)
Fire, blow!
Fire, let us make a
good fire!
Fire, make!
Fire, tend
Fish
Flee
Fly, it is fled
Fold, fold it up!
you"
Foolish
Forget
Forget,
"I
have
forgotten"
Forsake
Fortify, they
Fowl, he is gone to
(hunt) fowl
Fowling
Friend, be friends,
confederates
Friends, we are
friends
Frozen, iced
Full, thus full
Gather
Get!
Get, "I get nothing
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VERB
mauk, maug
tassam
cummaugakemish
nanoue
squutame
wuttush!
see peace, capitulate
commeinsh
commesim
assame
nowemacaunash
weeteant
wecont
see "come, came..."
mauche & memmauche
ntoyamaushem
konkenupsh
caupaush
kautanaush
pittucke
negonsh
pumme
punnowwau
nattuckqunuw
sawhe
mammauchetuck! or
anakiteunck!
neene cuthomwock
mauanish
kekinneawau
naumakiauog
nanowwete
ENGLISH
sell
Give nourishment
you land"
Give me tobacco
Give me your pipe
Give me!
Give up, surrender
things"
Glad, be glad
Glad, happy, have a
mind to
Go
to be)
speed), "I go this
speed"
Go ashore
Go away, depart
Go back
(see return)
Go before
Go down, come down
Go fishing
Go forth
Go, "now they go off"
Go slowly or gently
Go to feast
hell or the deep"
go to stool
Go to visit
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taquatchowau
see accompany
nickquenum
auog
tunock kuttoyeaim
kuttome (see "hom...")
aukewush
pummish
an
see "come, came..."
see greeting
wunnetu nitta
wunnetu
waunkam, waunckam
as cowequassin
as cowequassunnummis
nowant or nowaunt
loas
tackhum
cummauchanish
see return...
naumpacouin
augwhattous!
see glad
man:ne
sanapaushaum
pockquanam
noteaugo
nitasha
wachaun
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Go uphill
Go with, accompany
Go, "I am returning
home to my family"
Go, "go that way"
Go, "I go"
Go, they go
Go, "you go"
Go, be going from a
to where or why
Go, come by land
Go, travel
Going
beyond,
exceeding
Gone
Good day, morning
Good, "My heart is
good, pure"
Good, pure, proper
Greet, salute
Greeting, "good
morrow (day)" (In
nothern dialects,
"Hello" is said "quay")
Grieve
Grieve
Grind
(guide) you
Handle cloth
Hang around neck
(necklace)
Hang it!
Hang, "You shall be
hanged"
Happy
Hate
Have bloody flix
Have, I have
money' " (wampum)
Have, "I have"
Have, keep
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cussawontap
pompitam
kukkit
awaun mesh kuppittouwaw
wusseheposh!
qussuck
see busy
tannum
aununema
yo aphettit
see moon & sun
taunt
tam
anoce wenawash!
kuttannoonsh
see strike
anaskhom
wauapunish!
paupautuckquash!
kusopita, kussopita
cattup
ntiyu, ntio
see come from hunting
auchau
see frozen
nanompan
upponckquittauwh
see dwell
nippansinnea
mat mesh nowahea
see ask
wechuset, wepinnat
see have, keep
see "live alone"
nish
ENGLISH
Headache
Hear
(see understand)
Hear,
listen
(see
understand)
Hear, "Of whom did
you hear it"?
Heavy (stone)
Heed
Help
Help me!
Here, when they are
here
High (of moon, sun)
High, "sun so high"
Hinder, bother
Hire him!
Hit
Hoe
Hoist up! Lift up!
Hold water!
Hot, it's hot (see
"burn"; "sweat")
Hungry
Hunt, I hunt
Hunting
Hunting, fowling
Iced, frozen
Idle or base
Imprison
Inhabit
Innocent,
"I
am
innocent"
Innocent, I was
innocent (knew
nothing)
Inquire
Join together
Keep, have
Keep house alone, live
alone
Kill
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nauntatau
nneesnneanna
wau, wawwau, waww
nowahea
see work
pauchewannauog
Niautamwock
mauog
see buy land
ahan
cuttun
naponsh!
nipponamauoog
ponewhush!
see put, lay
nickat
namacowke
auqunnish
cupshitteauag
pannau
nishin
wequanantash!
nauk
wekine
nowetipo
see do not like
see "hear (kukkit)"
notate
konkeete
ti
mechimuash!
see sleep, lodge, dream
cattite
cattaunt
anaquau
see to look about
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Kill , come to
Kill, I have killed
two (deer, etc.)
Know
Know, "I knew"
Labor, work, job
Laden,
"They
are
laden"
Laden,
"They
are
laden"
Lame, I am lame
Land, buy land
Laugh, merry
Launch
Lay down!
Lay, lay in place
Leave, depart (see
"forsake")
Lend, lend me
Let go
(ambush)
Lie, speak untruth
Lies, is situated
Light a fire!
Light in weight
Like
Like, I like this
Like, do not like
Listen
alone
Live, be well
Live, dwell
Load it!
Lodge, sleep
Look
Look about, view
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shookekineas!
kekine
nowawwon
cowauwaunemun
wammaun, wamm
cuttiantacompawmen
nweche kokkewem
keesit
see tie
yimmi
see people
awetawatuock
wussenetuock
tatuppauntwa
nockuskau
miawe
wauwhautowash!
wunnite
kunnanaumpasummish
see laugh
cummauntussakou
Cuppissittone
nowannakese
see scorner
natouwompite
Yo wuttutan
see black
qussut
see cut, mow
cosaumakese
ENGLISH
Look at this!
Look at, behold
way"
Love
(see Thank you for
your love)
fellow"
Mad, "I will be mad
with him"
(see Fire)
Make fast, tie up
Make this for me
Many
Marry, they make a
same wetu
Marry, They marry
Measure, weigh
Meet
Meet, a court
Meeting , call!
Mend
Mercy , mercy
Merry, happy
Missed, You have
missed him
Mistaken, "you are
mistaken"
Mistold,
"I
have
mistold"
Mocker, scorner
Money, coin
Moon, the moon so
high
Mourning
Move residence
Mow, cut
Much, You have told
too much
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kemine
nipposkiss
wesuonck
ussaw
wesuonckgonnakaunes
aquie mishommoke
taantussaweitch
matnowesuonck
ntussawese
tahena
tahossowetam
see hang around neck
cowawwunnaunchim
aunchemok, aunchem(?)
see fine, nice, pretty
see more
see disbelieve
see Believe,obey I believe you
pauquanam
see oversee
sog, sok
nowwunnem
quawupshaw
chesam,chesammat
aunake
see confusion
pum
naumpat
taunckquitt
keeskwh
cuppaimish
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Murder
Naked, "I am naked"
(see "robbed")
Name, a
Name
Name, call
Name, Do not name
the dead
Name, "do you ask my
name"
Name, "I have no
name"
Name, "my name is"
Name, "what is his
name"
of it"
Necklace
news "
News, tell
Nice, fine, pretty
No more
not believe
Obey
Open
Order, oversee
Out-going (of water,
etc.)
Oversee,
order,
command
Overset (in canoe)
Owe, I will owe you
Pain, sore
Paint
(see write)
Panic, confusion
Passing by, crossing
Pay
Pay
Pay
well"
Pay, I will pay you
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aque
maunauog
& wussaumemaunauog
wesauashaui
aukeeteau
wunnaugonhommin
akes
nummacheke
machetu
soken16
mamaskishaui
neesquttonckqus
peeyaunt
cuckquenamish
see fine, nice, pretty
see curing
wuttautnish!
mauminikish!
see good
onamatta cowauta !
caudnish!
ocquash!
sawhok
ponam
anit
see pour out
waupaupunish!
pawtuckquammin
keete
mequaunam
see "take out"
see return
tauntap
aquei
see I am returning home
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Peace, capitulate, a
subject
many
Plague, "He has the
plague"
Plant corn
Play, dice game
Play, score
Poor, I am a poor
man
Poor, he is poor
Pour out, rain
Pox, "he has the pox"
Pray
favor"
Pretty, nice
Priest, curing ill
Pull to you!
Tie it hard!
Pure
Put off!
Put on!
Put out
Put, lay in place
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Putrefied, it is
U
Rain
Raise up!, Lift up!
U
(head, etc.,)
Reach
II
Recover ("with life III
again")
Remember
II
Remove, take out
Repent (of sin)
Rest
II
Rest, He rested
II
Return home
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pittakunnam
ENGLISH

turn, repent
tannot
wenawwetu
Rich, he is rich
Rides, He rides on
horseback
pasuckquish!
Rise!
see cook
Roast, cook
nummokokunitch
Rob, "I am robbed"
(see steal)
chechequnnuwau
Rob, steal
(see steal)
Room, there is not
enough room for so
many people
see They dont have enough Room, not enough
room
see row canoe
Row canoe
quaunquaque, quaque
Run
pauchippow
Run for safety
see run for safety
Safety
sepagehommauta !
Sail, let us sail!
agehucka
keesauname!
Save me!
nawont
Saw, he saw
be law")
Say, speak
(see
command,
tell)
see play, score
Score, play
meshannant, meyaont
Scorn, indignation
kekaumw
Scorner, mocker
natinneha
Search
(see ask)
nun
See
nawonash
things"
see "give" (mauk,maug)
Sell, buy, present
negautowash!
Send for him!
nnegauchemish
see subject
Servant, he is my
see dish out
Serve food, etc.
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ENGLISH
Shake for cold ("I

shake for cold")
ntatuppe wunnepog
Shake, "I shake as a
leaf"
tatagganish!
Shake this!
pumm
Shoot (as an arrow)
peskhom
gun)
tiaquonqussu
Short, he is
Shot, who fired the
first shot
kakatom
Show, tell
kupha, cup
Shut, closed, deaf
mauchen
Sick (see have bloody
flix, Have unknown
disease, plague &
ail)
tassaqunsin)
he been sick"?
see dance
Sing
wetapwauwwas
Sit and talk
mattapsh!
Sit down!
ap
kussackquetuck!
ap
Sitting, staying
see lies
Situated, lie
tawho
Slain
see destroy
Slaughter
wunna kukkussaquam
Sleep much, "You
sleep much"
nkataquam
kowe, koue, cowe
Sleep, lodge
quo
cussassaqus
quitchemaunta
machemoqut
puck
wutttamauog
wunnashpishan
see pain
penowantau

compound verbs)
Slow, You are slow
Smell
Smell, it smells ill
Smoke
Smoke tobacco
Snatch away
Sore
Sorry, I am sorry
Speak
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awanagusantowosh!
cuttawanagusantowam?
eenantowash!
nutteenantowam
cutteenantowam?
natotema
mishauntowash!
nanantowash!
see "truth"
kekuttokau
kukkokash!
cuttoan
neepoue
nippaskanauntum
cuppompaish
kuttaskwhe, kuttasha
nqenouhick wuttin
see bed
kinnequass!
saumpi
seip, seep, sepa
tatakom
see thread
minak, minik
cumminakese
ntannotam
Yo autant
nickqussittaunum
pesuppau
mocquesui
aquechmock
mat nowewuttammo
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Speak English!
Speak, "Do you speak
English"
Speak Indian!
Speak, "I speak Indian"
Speak, "Do you speak
Indian"?
Speak on, continue
Speak out!
Speak plain!
Speak the truth
Speak with
Speak!
Speak, "He speaks
Indian"
Speak, "you speak"
Stand
starved"
you"
Stay, "stay for me"
the wind
Stays in bed
Steal, rob
Steer (canoe)!
Straight
Stretching, extending in
tme or space
Strike
String, thread
Strong
Strong,
"you
are
strong"
Subject, "He is my
subject"
sweat (perspire)
Sweat
Swim, they swim
Take none, I take none
(tobacco)
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aumaun
see busy
see "dish out, serve"
menakissam
see sit and talk
qunnauqussu
quitcheta
see much
cunnoonakese
& cosaumakese
ntunnan
kuttunnan
see cannot tell
nowannakese
see show
taubat, taup, taub
taubot wetayean
taubotne aunanamean
taubotne anawayean
naneeshaumo
noonapuock
teant
tunnant
tussinam
cawk
enomphommin
pockhom
pawtawtees!
nawwuttunsh!
peskhommin
kepun
see weary
nuppamen
ENGLISH
Take away
Take care of, heed,
busy
Take out food, remove
Take store
them"
Talk
Tall, "he is tall"
Taste
for you"
Tell too much
Tell too much, "You
have told too much"
Tell, "I tell"
Tell, "you tell"
Tell, cannot tell
Tell, say
Thank
your company"
your love"
There are two of us
(and other numbers)
There is no more
room for everyone
Think
Think
Think
Thirsty
Thread, string
Thresh
Throw here, hither!
Throw hither!
Thunder, to
Tie, Make fast
(see pull up)
Tired
To be dying
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wussaumpatammin
petasinna,
wuttammasin
tanocki, tanocksha
anaqushento
quaquawtatatteaug
mouashaw
see go, travel
mucco
ENGLISH
To look about, view

Tobacco, "Give me
tobacco"
Torn, it is torn
Trade, let us trade
Train, "They train"
Traps , set
Travel
say"
noonamautuckquawhe
Trust me
wanaumw:17;
wunnaumw:; Truth , speak the
aumun:; anaumw:; nauwm:
(see faithfulness)
nowauwon
truth"
see faithfulness
Truthfulness
waut
Understand,
believe,
know
cuppittous
understand you"
aumpani
Untie
see dislike
Unwilling
awau?
Use
yo iish wuttanho
Use this staff (walking
stick)
nickummaunam
Vanquish
wussaumpatamonck
View, a view
(see look about)
nnanowweteem
visit
munnadtom
Vomit
toceke
Wade (in water)
see stay, wait
Wait
toke
Wake
nickquehick
Want, "I want it"
(see long for)
queint
War , make upon
awass
Warm
apissuma!
Warm this for me!
kesu, hesu
Warm, it is warm
chowhesu
Warm, "it is warm"
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VERB
cutsshitteous!
askwhitteass!
minioquesu
cumminiocquese
wenawetuonckon
aumaunemun
nsouwwussanneme
sowwushkaw
& sowanishkau
monaskunnemun
see measure
paumpmaunt
see "come, came..."
Tuckiiuash
sasaumitauwh
sere sailing
cheskhosh!
waunt, wauont
taupowaw
wussenet
anacaus, anakaus
wuttunnantu
yo anawhonw
wesquaubenan
wussuckwh, suckwh
cowewenaki
ENGLISH
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Wash this!
Watch!
Weak, "he is weak"
Weak, you are weak
Wealth
Wean, to
Weary, I am weary
from speaking
Weary, tired
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Weed, to
Weigh, measure
Went
Where are they?
Whip
Wind for sailing
Wipe off!
Wise
Wise speaker
Woo
Work, labor
Worth it, it is
Wounded, I am
wounded
mats
Write, paint
Wronged, "You have
wronged me"
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PART II
DICTIONARY OF NOUNS
Roots and Stems For Nouns, Adjectives, &c,

Listed Alphabetically by
English & Narragansett
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
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(1936 EDITION)
ALPHABETICAL
BY ENGLISH1
see upwards
nneickomasu &
awwassese
-panna-2, -penowutche machaug
-sim-, -sum-, -saewepe
ogwhan
mammausa
wonck, wonkatack
see "front"
wame, waumet
yahen
see left
see left
paucotche
Above
A little further
A modifier in verbs which reverses
the meaning of the primary root
About nothing, out of nothing, last
of all
Action of heat, heating, burning
Accusation, demand; verb
modifier
Adrift, boat is
Adulterer, he, she is (see
"disease")
Again, more, once again, some
more
Ahead, in front
All, it is all
Almost, approximately
Alive, no one left alive
Alone, no one left
Already, it is ready
43
9, 55-6, 162
42, 132-3
42, 179
139, 189, 142-3, 179
108
146
9, 33, 201, 38
14, 34, 195, 133, 139, 134

62-3
42
Some meanings attached to roots/stems may not appear in the Roger Williams book, A Key. Also, some
roots/stems might be listed or duplicated in Part I of the book. For additional words and roots, see our
book, A Massachusett Language Book, Vol. 1, 1998, Aquidneck Indian Council. The page numbers
indicate where examples are given in Roger Williams' book. Stress/accent marks are not included.
2
The hyphen shows where in a word the root/stem is most likely to be found. The entry -panna- tells us
that "panna" will usually be found in the middle of a word as in Cuppannawutous ("I do not believe you";
page 56, A Key). The root "-ashim" will usually be found at the end of a word, while "pee-" is seen at the
beginning of words.
57
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
nanick
see forever
kunnosnep
nukkone
Also, too, same

Always, eternal
Anchor
Ancient (see "first")
ka
-ashim, -shim, -washim
squashim
enewashim
see who
-pitcauquat
machippog
see so far"
-wekweque, -weksee just now
neane
-ip, -up, -it
And
Animal
Animal, female
Animal, male
Anyone
Arm
Arrow
Arrow quiver (empty?)
As far as
As far as, so far (part of verbs)
As far as, so far, at the end
As soon as
As, like, so, such, in the manner of
At end of some verbs, means the
verb is past tense
At, in, of, to, place of, where, it is,
here, when it is
At, of (possession, trait)
-at, -et, -it, -ot, -ut, -ag, -og

-ek,-at, -ik, -ick, -ock,
-ocks
-i
-uo, -unno, -no, -o, -mo

(see "none of")
-ickqun, -uckqun, -ucqun
-uck, -ick, -it, -eg
-is, -mis, -as, -us

taquonck
Attached to nouns or verbs to

mean something is happening now
(sokenuni = it is raining now)
Attached to nouns, these endings
ask the question, Is there ...?,
"Have you?" or state "None of",
"There is none of"
Attached to Objective Indicative
verbs (He, sheme &
He, sheyou(sg.). These endings
probably mean the object (me &
you) should be plural. Roger
Williams is perhaps mistaken in
his translation
Attached to some nouns to indicate
location, meaning in, to, of, at,
there, from (see "-euck",
Narragansett section, below)
Attached to verbs to indicate a
question, usually past tense verbs
Autumn, Fall, harvest
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58
109
Trumbull 1903
Natick Dictionary
2, 190, 133-4
103, 105
105
105
65
184
184
44
44
Throughout A Key
15, 34, 65-6, 134, 70
11-13, 82-3, 200 &
Throughout A Key
Throughout A Key
4, 10, 94-5,13, 160-1, 28
68, 76, 123, 138, 174, 1889, 195
3-4, 31, 46, 166, 180 &

throughout A Key
6, 8, 66, 147-8
65-6
58
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
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puckwheganash &
mucksuck
papoos
-pusquan
mattand, mattanit
Awl blades
156
Baby
Back
Bad, evil Spirit
machit
mach-, mache-, mauch-
Bad, evil, it is
Bad, not, poor, sour, stink
-mat-, -matta- (mattux is

plural form)
Bad, not, unpleasant (when in a

verb) or before a verb to mean
"not"
6, 28
51, 65
Trumbull 1903
Natick Dictionary
36
14-15, 26-7, 42-3, 56, 115,
132, 142, 163, 168-9, 175,
194-5, 142, 159, 193-4
3-5, 7-10, 12-13, 33-4, 38,
40-2, 44, 55-8, 60, 68, 74-5,
87, 132, 135-6, 142-4, 169,
192, 198, 201
see "knapsack"
onawangonnakaun
wuchipaquamen
muckucki
auqunnash
munnote
missuckeke
eatch, enatch
manusqusedash
tuppuhqumash
Bag
Bait
Barberry (red berry, prickly pear)
Bare, without wool (see "boy, ...")
Barns
Basket (& quantities)
Bass
Be as, say as is, your will
Beans (bush)
Beans (kidney)
mosquand
mosq, paukunawwaw
pennashimwock
see grind
see good, pleasing, ...
sumhup
tummock
noosup
tummockquashunck
newutche, wutche
Bear Spirit
Bear, a
Beasts
Beat
Beautiful
Beaver (female)
Beaver (in general)
Beaver (male)
Beaver-fur coat
Because, for, before (see "There,
of")
Belly, the
Bent, crooked, it is (see
crooked)
Berry, fruit, corn
Beside, near to
Between, midway
Big, how big?
Big, large, whole, much
wunnake
wauki
-min-, -mensee "near to"
nanashawtou anuckquaque
mish-, miss-, mash-, mass-
117
97
160
101
100-1
112
141, 190
11
Trumbull 1903
Natick Dictionary
Author's Construction
80, 175
102
103
103, 119, 161
103
119
138 & elsewhere
52
42
11, 15, 95-8, 100-1
63, 110
43
To the Reader, 15, 60, 68,
80, 83-4, 87, 106-7, 132,
142, 109, 112-113,175,
59
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
npeshawog &
pussuckseesuck
mowisequt
mow-, mochogan
see "red'
peshaui
ENGLISH
Birds, fowl
Black (see dark color)
Black soot
Black, soiled
attitaash
see shallop, ship, boat
wuhock
nuhock
-ock-, -hockmuhock
Blackbird (spotted)
Blood
Blue/violet flower. Ooni is blue
in Natick dialect
Blueberries, hurtleberries
Boat (European)
Body, his, her
Body, my
Body, shell
body, the
kuhock
wuskannaumatuck
ohtomp
Body, your
Bone
Bottom, on the
Bow, shooting
puppuckshackhege
-muck-tipsee "tree"
munnucks
see round cake
sickqumishcup, sequananmau-nunnogan
toyusk
papuckakiuash
-matchickauta
naim, namitch
awepu, awepesha
wuttanho
mohowaugsuck &
mauquauog
mishoonemese
-oon, mishoon
wompmissaund
mishittouwand
Box, a
Boy, son, child
Brain
Branch of tree
Brant, brantgoose
Bread
Break (for succotash)
Breame (fish)
Breast, milk (see milk)
Bridge
Brittle
Brother
Burn (see fire)
By and by, soon (see soon)
Calm, storm calms
Cane, staff
Cannibals (Mohawk Indians,
Iroquois)
Canoe, a little one
Canoe, boat, ship
Canoe, chestnut
Canoe, large
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88, 133
42, 191
201
42, 52, 103, 105, 191, 116,
119
89
97, 191
97
130
130
130
Trumbull 1903 Natick
Dictionary
130
113, 175
39
Dictionary
42
3, 28, 190
49
90
11
113
150
94
156
28-9, 34
139, 195
35
109
74
16
107
8, 72, 106-108
108
107
60
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
paugautemissaund
kowawwaund
comishoon
peewauqun
netasuog
see "stop"
paugcotche
wompiminneech-, nechmuchquachuckquand
muckiis auhaqut
nquittekea
see squirrel (1)
siskisspauqui
-monak-, -maunekmattauqus
-pacwautcone
pauganaut
see cool
taucocks
see -unck, -onck, onckon ( Narragansett
section)
nesick & nashoqua

hub-hub-hub
kits
-waw, -quaw
wopwawnockquat
shwishcuttowwauog
qunnihticut, quinnibticut
chippapuock
mattacuckquaw
ENGLISH
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Canoe, oak
Canoe, pine
Canoe, your canoe
Canounicus (Narragansett Sachim)
Care, have a care
Cattle (plural)
Cease from doing
Certainly, surely
Chestnut
Child
Child Spirit
Child's cape, mantle
Children I have had one child
(etc.)
Chipmunk
Christian Religious sermon
Clam, black
Clear, it is (see "Holds up")
Cloth & colors of
Clothing, hides, skins & types of
Cloud, a
Cluster
Coat-wearer
Coats (2 coats, 3 coats, etc.)
Cod (fish)
Cold
Cold weather
Collections of things (see
"Endings for groups of things")
107
108
108
57, 140, 203
40
102
Colors (see "red", "blue",

"green", "yellow", "black",
"white")
Comb, A
Come-come-come, gambling
expression
Comorant (bird)
Condition, state, status
Confusion, panic, hubbub
Constellation, Belt of Orion (3
fires in a wetu")
Connecticut River, on the, of the
Constellation, Pleiades
Cook, a
191-192
149
95
148, 140
124
120
148
131-9
114
83
160
see pages 119-121
83
48
52, 59
119-120
111
83
43
Dictionary
91
29, 62-3, 131, 169, 198
184
80
To the Reader, 137
80
14
61
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
tahk-, tak-, taki-, taq-, taukkits
ewachim
sokenug
see "seed"
ewachimanit
waweekanash
see straight
see rulers
-tunck, -tunk
aucup
cowsnuck
sasemen
taunek
see cove
penayi & pemisquai
kaukont
see ways
paukunnum
sucki-taunwompan
quawquonikeesakat
kitompanisha
nquittaqunne
tiaquockaskeesakat
aumpatabaun
nquittaqunnegat
keesuck, keesak, keesucq
mauchauhom
see do not name
mockuttasuit
mauchauhomwock &
chepeck
mouanaqushanchick,
mouanaqushauog
nonamautuckquaheginash
tou wuttauqussin
yo ntauqussin
attuck & noonatch
ENGLISH
Cool, cold
Cormorant (bird)
Corn (see berry)
Corn, a pile of
Corn seed
Corn Spirit
Corn, sweet
Correct, just, right
Councilmen
Cousin
Cove or creek
Cows
Cranberry
Crane (bird)
Creek
Crooked, winding, it is (see
bent)
Crow, raven
Customs
Dark, it is
Dark color, people, etc.
Daughter
Dawn, it is bright day, it is full day
light
Day, a long day
Day, daybreak
Day, first (& others)
Day, it is a short
Day, it is broad day
Day, one day (& others)
Day, time, sky, heavens, weather
Dead man, the (see "man, old")
Dead, deceased persons crossed
over
Dead, person who wraps up the
dead in mats before burial
Dead, the
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91
98
100
Authors Construction
101
29
113
104
97
93
42, 46
89
64
160, 191
2, 28
62, 80, 124
63
63
132-4
63
62
65
39, 63, 67, 79, 82-83, 1313, 135
202
185
202
Dealers, peddlers, chapmen
112
Debts
Deep, how deep?
Deep, thus deep
Deer (1)
168
73
73
104, 175
62
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
kuttiomp
poquesu
causkahtuquand
aunan & qunneke
paucottauwat
wawwunes
moosquin
paucottauwaw
acoh
qunnequawese
caukashunck
wusseke
awemanittin
poskattuck
kitummayi mes nechaw
paugcotche nechauwaw
see spirit, departed, ...
chepeck
neechipog
see painted stones ...
quttukquaquaw,
panicompaw
-eiu, -uiu
mamaskishauonk
wunnaug
pok-, poqu-, poskaquie
ntaquie
aquie mishash,
aquie mishhommoke
tawhitch yo enean
nickummat
anum
squantaumuck
aukeeaseiu
waumsu
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
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Deer (2) (large male)

Deer (half of), it is
Deer skin (dry?)
Deer Spirit
Deer, a doe (aunan = "female")
Deer, buck
Deer, buck (young)
Deer, fawn
Deer, great buck
Deer, hide shirt
Deer, little doe
Deer, skin of
Deer, the hind part of
Deer, their migration
(running)time
Deer, whole one
Delivered, she has just
Delivered, surely she has had a
baby (Paugcotche = surely)
Departed, gone
Departed, separated, the
Dew
Dice
Dinner, after dinner
104, 175
175
176
104, 175
175
104, 175
104, 175
104
119
104
176
175
176
Direction (upwards, etc.)

Disease, pox (chicken pox,
small pox, syphilis?); see "plague"
& "adulterer"
Dish, bowl
Divide, break, half
(see Spirit, departed)
Do not do, stop doing (used before
verbs as a "prohibitive")
39, 79
196
Do not do, "I will stop"

Do not name the dead
Do so, Why do you do so?
Do, easy to do, weak
Dog
Door, at the door
Down, downwards, towards
earth
Downhill, it is
175
149
149
202
84
62
36-37, 179
40, 101, 150, 165, 32, 113,
115, 175
12, 40-1, 69, 74, 76, 129,
150, 179, 182, 186, 189,
202
179
202
143
41
104-5, 172
38
39
76
63
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
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Dressing for wound

Drum (European import)
Dry
Dry (weather)
Duck, a
Dwelling, residence
Eagle, osprey, fishhawk
Ear
Earth
Earth, black
Earth, red
East Spirit
Easy
Ebb
Ebb, low ebb, tide
Eel-pot
Eels
199
184
83
83
90
22-26, 147-8, 153-4

27
94, 180, 39, 141
matwauog
wautaconawaunagussuck
petacaus
chauquaquock
neesneechahettit
taubi-, taup-, taubsee "English"
wunnauquit
nauk-, nok- & wunnauq
see "bad, evil"
see bad, evil spirit
matche manitoo
Eight
Elder
Enclosed structure
End of, at end of
Endings for groups of things like
skin & fur types; also for abstract
nouns (wisdom, love,
faithfulness, etc.)
Enemy warriors
English, the (coat-wearer)
English, the (strangers)
English waistcoat
Englishmen (sword-men)
Enough food for 20 men
Enough, thankful
European
Evening, it is
Evening, night (see night)
Evil
Evil Spirit
Evil Spirit
see "water, river"

keesaqkeesuckwekineauquat
Extended
Eye
Face
Fair weather
maskit
popowuttahig
pauq-, paqnnappi
quequecum
see "wigwam"
wompissacuk
wuttow
see land, earth
metewis
mishquock
wompanand
see "do, easy to do, weak"
skat & mauchetam
mittaeskat
mihtuckquashep
neeshauog &
nquitteconnauog
shwo-, swoa-, shoasee great, old, elder, ...
-kamuck, -comuck
see so far
-unck, -onck, -onckon
88
50
192
192
124
110
110
116
113
119, 36, 73, 110, 130, 1967, 84
183
52, 59
59
120
38,59
14
7, 14, 35, 120, 57, 128, 134
63
63, 67, 83, 170

Dictionary
194
49, 156, 192
82
64
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
naw-, naunauwot
nawwatick
tou nuckquaque yo wuche
hawunshech
wauwunnockoo
unhappo kosh
osh, nosh, kosh
cuttoso
kushqushnickommo
mequin
Far
Far away, a great way off
Far off at sea
Far, How far from here?
Farewell, good bye
Fat
Father, is your father at home?
Father, my father, your father
Father, "Have you a father?"
Fear (1)
Fear (2)
Feast, dance
Feather
see "fire in general ..."

aquequnnitteash
Fever
Fields worn out(from much
planting)
Fight
Figs
Finish, complete, cease action
Fire in general & fire spark
Fire in general, fever
Fire Spirit
Fire, candle, torch, a light
Fire, destructive, fever
Fire, domestic
Fire, the wetu is on fire (see
burn)
Fire, woods are on fire
Fireplace (1)
Fireplace (2)
Firewood
First, original, before, in front
First day
Fish (1)
Fish (2)
Fish, cod
Fishing line
Five (see pages 22-26 in A Key
for other numbers)
Flood, a
Flood, a great
Flood, half a flood
Flood, upon the flood
mecaut-, mecauntwaweecocks
mautasqutta, squuta
note
yotaanit
wequannat-, wekinan
chickot
yote
chickauta weta
weta wetedg
cuttow
quttow
see tree, firewood
necawni, negone, nnegone
see "day, first"
namas
-amak, -amag, -ammauqu
pauganaunt
aumanep
pannatamoccon
mishittommockon
nanashoweramaccon
taumacocks
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75
75
72
9
175
33-4
28, 2, 33, 34
28
186, 135
135-6, 186
126-9
Trumbull 1903
Natick Dictionary
94
183
15
54, 55, 77, 160, 98
32, 195
32, 195
125
33
32, 139, 195, 179
32
187
73
32, 2
32
12, 70, 72, 184
111, 133
113
112
115
22-26, 133, 147,153-4, 163
109
110
110
110
65
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
see blue
mechimucks
-seet-, -setsee playing arbor
see "there"
mscattuckmicheme
see "English, the
(strangers)"
waukaunosint
yoh, yow, yo, yau
Flower
Food, eat
Foot
Football
For, because
Forehead
Forever, always, never
Foreigner
see "bird"
mooshim
pequawus
mishquashim
netop machage
netop
Fowl
Fox, black (sacred animal)
Fox, gray
Fox, red
Friend, it is not so
Friend, my friend
[from netu + -omp = a person
born in my wetu, my kinsman]
Friend, not so
Friends, let us be
From here
Front, ahead, before
Frost, a
Frost, a great
Fruit
Fruitful (w/ children)
Fur
Further
Future tense marker, indicator
netop machage
wetompatitea
yo wutche
see "First"
topu
missittopu
see berry & barberry
muchickehea
see "hair, fur"
eneick & awwusse
see pitch (Narragansett
section)
sanaukamuck
see offerings
squasese
cosaume
goatesuck
see "manit-" (Narragansett
section)
Cummanitoo
manittoo wussuckwheke
tahsuog manittowock
woonand, wunnand
Fort
Four
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195, 52
49
71, 136, 169, 201, 138
186
22-26, 65-7, 101, 153-5
147, 163, 172
103
103
132
2, 7, 9, 15, 35, 38, 131, 135,
132, 138
132
190
72
83
84
148
43
Garden or enclosed land

Gift
Girl
Give, you give too much (food,
etc.)
(see much, it is too much)
Goats
God, spirit
94
You are a God

God's Book of Writing (Bible)
Gods, how many are there?
Good Spirit
126
136
131
28
12
104
66
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
wunegin
wune-, wunne-, -unne-,
-unna-, -tunna-, -wunwunnetu
wauwunnegachick
ENGLISH
Good, it is
Good, pleasing, favorable
Good, true, pure, proper, truthful

Good, very good (see fine, nice,
pretty, Part I, Verbs)
see "offerings ..."
Goods, belongings
honck
Goose (Canadian)
wompatuck
Goose, snow
sachimauog
Governors, Kings, Sachims
see Grammar Table [end of Grammatical terms for verbs
book]
(Indicative, Imperative, etc.)
wenomen
Grape, raisin
askeet-, maskitGrass, herb, meadow
kautontowit, cautantouwit
Great Spirit
mishauneteash,
Great store, much of
maunetash
kunnagqunneuteg
Great, a greater size (of eel-pot)
kich-, kutch-, kuttGreat, old, elder, principal or main
mamockiuwash
Great (plural)
askaski
Green
tackGrind, beat (as corn)
see "land, earth"
Ground, land, earth
askwhitteaug
Guard, There is a guard, sentry
set up
askwhitteachick
Guard, the
wauchaunat
Guardian
mauchatea
Guide, a
peskcunck
Gun (thunder stick)
saupuck
Gun powder
osucontuck
Haddock-like fish
wesheck
Hair, fur
muppacuck
Hairlock, scalplock
poquesu
Half, half of
-natch-, -nich-, -nickHand
siuckat
Hard, hard to do
wautuckwues
Hare, conie, rabbit (small)
see autumn
Harvest
anouant
Harvest, at
wuttunnemitch-ewachim
Harvest, when the corn harvest is
in
yo taquonticup
Harvest last
nunnowwa
Harvest time
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Dictionary
36
19, 36, 51, 53, 189, 161, 56,
87
6, 51, 53, 189
161
90
90
128
15
19, 96, 199
To the Reader, 90, 124, 130
60
116
27, 104, 107, 175
133
191
15, 37
185
185
150
69
84, 184
184
113
48, 161
48
113, 175
69, 40, 52
41
104
100
100
66
100
67
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
chickegin
kutchicheginash
see "head-dress"
mashackquineaug
wushowunan
naugom, naugum
unnaugh
yo apapan
ewo
-tup, -tap-, -tipsaunketippo & ashonaquo
maunetu
-tah-, -taaunckuck
see "Day, time..."

qussuck-, qussaqashappock
see greeting,
Part I, Verbs
see grass
see these
aumsuog &
munnawhatteaug
yo wuttuttan
yo autant
see "Water"
waucho
wuttush
anaskhig, anaskhom
pauqui, pauuquaquat
powwaw
hoqnaynayoumewot
sequnnock
see Part I, Verbs
kusitteuks
kussuttah
see "wigwam"
auquiegs
ENGLISH
Hatchet, warclub
Hatchets, your
Hat, headgear
Have no food, we (they) have no
food
Hawk
He, him, himself
He is there
He that was once here among us
He, him, her, she (see he)
Head
Head-dress
Healer (conjurer)
Heart (see "My heart is good";
"Our hearts...")
Heathcock or pinnated grouse or
prairie hen or partridge or
pheasant
Heavens, sky
Heavy, stone
Hemp
Hello, a greeting. In northern
dialects, quay is "hello"
Herb
Here
Herring
High, so (of moon, sun, etc.)
High, so high (of the sun, etc.)
A way of telling time
High water, tide
Hill, mountain
Hither
Hoe
Holds up, it holds up (weather)
Holy man, Medicine Man
Hook
Horse
Horsefish
Hot
Hot weather
Hot, it is hot
House
Household things
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
see where
see "long, how long?"
see many, so many
wasick
neen
wuskont
nummishcapatnanompanissichick
see at, in, ...
see "front"
acouwe
see "people of, tribes"
Indiansuck
nninnuog
-sh-, -shaupetmoce or unuckquaquese
or mocena
see "when it is ..."
mowashuck
eiu or nniu
wusame, wussaum,
wussume
see I fear I shall
see live
kittummayi, kittummayi
see straight
maish
auckuck, ockuck
paupaquonteg
see "governors ..."
sachim
nemauaninnuit
wiaseck, eiassunck,
mocotik, punnetunck,
chauqock
qunnamaug
-ake-, -aki-, -akee-,
-auke-, -auki-
ENGLISH
How
How long
How many
Husband, his husband
I, me
I fear I shall, it will, I will, it may
happen
I find him
Ice, frozen
Idle, lazy people
In
In front, ahead, leading
In vain, for no purpose
Indian tribes
Indian, of Indian, Indian tribes
Indians (English name)
Indians, human beings
Inferior quality, less than (some
words); also, involuntary action
Inside, in
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To the Reader
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Instantly, soon (see soon)
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Involuntary or indefinite action

Iron metal
Is it so?
It is too much, it is exceedingly
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It will happen
joy
Just now, as soon as
Just, correct, right
Just, just now
Kettle
Key, a
Kings
Kingbird
Knapsack, satchel, carrying bag
Knife. The English were called
Chauquaquock (sword-men)
Lampries (fish)
Land, earth
The word auke means literally
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
nittauke
nissawanwkamuck
wuskaukamuck
aquequnnitteash
see "big, large..."
wussaume tatsha
see idle
wunnepog
nonowwussu
yo nmunnatch
wanne howanne
mohcontqunnascat
pupannouwachick
ainshik
see "keete" (Part I, Verbs)
naukonwequai, wequacutshausha
see as
netop kihkita
see small
peewasu
wussaumepewasick
noonacominash
peewasick, peewasicks
weeteantamwock
ashaunt
see -uck, -ick, ...
audta, autah, autawhun
qunn-, qunqunnekamuck
wuttapuissuck
checheke mautsha
tashuckqunne
cowauwaunemun
ENGLISH
mother earth. Perhaps Earth
Spirit is auke-anit.
Land, my land
Land, my (of a garden or enclosed
land)
Land, ground, new and enclosed
(as a garden)
Lands, old; worn out planting
fields
Large, big
Late, it is too
Lazy
Leaf
Lean, it is
Left hand (to the left side)
Left, There was no one left alive
Leg
Length, great
Liars
Lies, the way or path
Life, with life, recovered
Light, in weight
Light, the light, it is light
Lightning
Like, as, so, such
Listen to me, my friend
Little
Little, it is
Little, it is too little
Little, it is too little (of clothing)
Little, small things (basket, fish,
etc.)
Live, they live in great joy
Lobster
Location words (endings)
Loincloth, "apron"
Long (see how long" & "water,
river)
Long house
Long house poles
Long lasting
Long, How long?
Lost, you are lost, wandering in
the woods
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NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
waumausu
-potouwawwhunnekesuog
-omp
nnin-, enesanomp
skeetomp
ntinnume
kutchinnu
homes
mattauntum
manit anawat
maunauog, mishaunawock
tashe- (sometimes
mispelled by Roger
Williams as "chas-")
wussamemaunauog
annauk, annaukan
see "grass
nokehWeeyous
see holy man
pusuckquakohowauog
munnunnug
natouwompitea
kaukakineamuck,
pebenochichauquanick
mocussinass
see "cannibals"
moneash
nitteauguash
nquitpawsuck
nanepaushat
yo wompanammit
paushesui
pashpishea
nepauus, nippauus
yo ockquitteunk
munnannock
wequashim
ENGLISH
Loving, she, he is
Make, build (as a fire); see Part I,
Verbs
Mackerel (fish)
Man (tribesman) (1) or male
Man (tribesman) (2)
Man, a
Man, a
Man, he is my man
Man, middle aged
Man, old
Man, very old & "decrepit"
Manitoo commands
Many, a great many
Many, so many, how many, how
much
(see how long)
Many, there are too many (people,
etc.)
Mat
meadow
Meal, parched
Meat
Medicine Man
Meet to play football
Miantunnomu (Sachim's name)
Milk (see breast)
Minter (maker) of wampum
Mirror, looking glass
Moccasin, shoe
Mohawk Indians
Money (English word)
Money, my
Month, one (One moon)
Moon Spirit & moon
Moon that shines till dawn (old
moon)
Moon, half
Moon, it is up
Moon, month, sun
Moon, new
Moon, star in general (stars?)
Moonlight (lightish)
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
moos, moose
see again
auwusse
mishannock
nokace & witchwhaw
Cuttokaso
see hill
see black
quss-tonesee "big, large..."
tou nuckquaque
see "little, it is too little"
wussaume
wunna
kemineiachick
wunnetu nitta, wunnetu nta
-kasswes-, wesewetmattaasu
pausawut
kiske
maumichemanege
ashap-, ashopsee forever
wuskaumamuck
wuskapehana
wusk-, wask
awaun nakommit
nickommo
-tippoc-, -tuppacnokannawi
takitippocat
wekitppocat
nowweta
kuttowma-, man-, mano- (see
ENGLISH
Moose
More, some more
More, it is more
Morning star
Mother, my
Mother, "Have you a mother?"
Mountain
Mourning
Move, relocate
Mouth
Much
Much, how much (money,
etc.)?
Much, it much too little
Much, it is too much (cooked, etc.)
(see give, you give too much)
Much, very (for hunger, sleep,
etc.)
Murderers (see -kem-)
My heart is good (pure, true)
Nail, finger
Name (1)
Name (2)
Narragansett
Near by, it is, not far from here
Near to, almost, nearly
Near to, beside, next to
Needle, a
Net
Never
New ground (unplanted)
New traps (for hunting)
New, young, originally, first,
beginning
Nickommo, Who makes a feast?
Nickommo, a celebration or
mourning ceremony
Night (see evening)
Night, it is (see evening)
Night, it is a cold
Night, It is a warm night
No matter
Noise (trumpet)
None of, cannot, not
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
"attached to nouns, these
endings...")
paweshaquaw, paushaquaw
yahen paushaquam
nawwauwquaw
nummattaquaw
wunnanameanit
-chaun
matta (see "bad, not,
unpleasant")
see bad
mattux (pequot)
noonat
asquam
ENGLISH
Noon
Noon, almost noon
Noon, afternoon
Noon, before
North Spirit
Nose
No, not, none
Not
Not (plural), no
Not enough
Not yet
Nouns, additional word lists
see "presently" & "just, just now

now"
nquit
Number one (other numbers on
pp. 22-26 in A Key)
noos-, noonsu
Nurse
nanouwetea,
Nurse, a , overseer of worship
naunouwheant
ceremony
see at, of
Of
nummaumachiuwash
Offerings, presents, goods,
belongings
ayatche & conkitchea
Often, as often as, as many times
as not
eataubana
Old traps (for hunting)
eatawus, eataubana
Old (see great, old...)
mattauntum
Old, very old & decrepit (of a
person)
wunnauchiOn the top of
pawsuck
One (see number)
naunt
Only, alone
nanisquegachick
Oppressors
tuppautea
Or (?)
towiuwock
Orphans
see "eagle"
Osprey
nkeke
Otter
nkequashunck
Otter-skin hide/coat
wutthouwash
Our hearts are true, pure
wunnganash
puckquatchick
Outdoors, outside
mattaquat, cuppaquat
Overcast weather, it is
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
kokokehom, ohomous
opponenauwutkunck
nenotehunck
asauanash
papoos
paupock
see mesh & -ip, -up,...
peemayagat
aquene
aquie wopwauwock, aquie
wopwauwash
nquittompscat
-euck, -ock, -og, -uck,
-oog
pequttoog
meteauhock
wuskowhan
qunoswuttammagon
hopuonck
see at, in place of
wesauashauonck
wuttotanick
aukeeteaumitch
puttuckquapuonck
kittcickauick
see constellation
-og, -wock, -ock, -uck,
-aug
-ash
nips
machetu
tatackom
tackkunck, weskhunck
katou eneechaw
wachit-quashouwe
tahenauatu
see "holy man, ..."; "wise
men ..."
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Owl (kokokehom = little owl)

Oyster
Paddle, oar
Paddle, oar; my paddle, oar
Painted stones for gambling game
Papoose
Partridge
Past tense verbs
Path, a little (see way)
Peace, calm, truce, no war
Peace, hold the peace
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Penny, one (& other coins)

People of, tribes
153
Pequots, Tribe
Periwinkle, for white wampum
Pigeon, dove
Pike (fish)
Pipe, tobacco (calumet)
Pipe, tobacco (small, personal)
Place of
Plague, the (cf. "yellow")
Plantation, town, village
Planting time (see "seasons")
Playing arbor, football
Playing field
Pleiades
Plural for animate nouns; also seen
in conjugation of verbs (see
Grammar Table)
Plural for inanimate nouns; also
seen in conjugation of verbs (see
Grammar Table). see -og,
-wock...
Pond
Poor, a poor man
Porpoise
Pounding mortar
Pregnant, she is getting (??)
Presently, now
Price, what price
Priest
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
wunnekesu
see "land, my land"
nemauaninnuit
see "student"
suckauhock
poquauhock
miskisauwaw
see -is, -mis (Narragansett
section, below)
see hare
ausup, mohewmohewonck
sokenun & anaquat
mishunnan
sautaash
see raw
sesek
see crow
ask-, asqsee "already"
wunnam
mishqui-, mishqua-, misq-,
msqi-, misquimishquamaygat
wekinash
see proper
see -panna-, -peno-
peteaugon, peetaugon
yo mtunnock
see "instantly"
missuppaugatch
quequisquitch
-ompskmachipscat
anittash
puttuckqui
puttuckqunnege
see "wigwam, round
house"
atauskowaug
ENGLISH
Proper (respectful), she, he is
Property, my
Provisions for the way
Pupil, ward, student
Purple rim of quahog for wampum
Quahog, clam (purple rim used for
wampum beads)
Quarrelsome person
Question marker, indicator at end
of words
Rabbit
Raccoon
Raccoon-skin hide/coat
Rain
Rain, a great
Raisin
Rattle, a
Rattlesnake
Raven
Raw, natural, edible, gourd, rattle
Ready
Red paint
Red, blood & things red (salmon,
fox)
Red, the Red Road (Indian way)
Reed (wekininashquash may be
sweetgrass)
Relatives & relations & kinship
terms
Respect
Reverse meaning of word
Rib
Right hand (to the right side)
Right now, instantly
Rivers, when they are thawed
Robin, a (Pequot-Mohegan)
Rock, stone (see "heavy", "stone")
Rock, stone path
Rotten, when it is rotten
Round, it is
Round cake, loaf, bread
Round house
Rulers, nobles, Council Members
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
sachim, saunks
chepasotam
sachimmacommuck
saunks
sachimaupan
sepakehig
een-, nan-, ensee "hairlock"
paumpagussit
wechekum, kitthan
-keeswush
seasons of the year
-kemscannemenwompiscannemeneash
see spirit, departed
wunnauanounck
ahauqushpapone
see he
taut
anawsuck
kitonuck
see mocassin
see sea, ocean
tiaquonqussu
shottash
uppeke
see "shallop"
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Sachem, chief, village leader, wife

of sachem
Sachem, the dead
Sachim's wetu, wigwam, house
Sachim's wife
Sachim, he that was once the
Sachem here
Sail, a
Same, ordinary, plain, male, of
tribal people
Scalplock
Sea Spirit
Sea, ocean (wechekum may be
shore, sea coast)
Season, moon, month
Seasonsthe Indian year seems to
have had at least 6 seasons
1. Aukeetemitch (when he
plants) seed time
2. Squan (when water runs
again or when water is
long?) early spring
3. Nepun midsummer
4. Nnnowa (the corn dries,
grows dry) harvest time
5. Taqunck (beginning of
cold) fall of the leaf
6. Papne winter
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202
141
141
202
Secretly
Seed (1), corn
Seed, white corn seed
Separate, departed
Shallop, boat
Sharp winter
She
Sheepshead fish
Shells (see body)
Ship, boat
Shoe
Shore
Short, he/she is
Shot for gun
Shoulder
Skiffe
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
see upwards & daytime,

heavens
pee-es, -ese, -s
Sky, heavens
-emes
see "stinks, it"
weetimoquat
puckaskug
moaskug
sasaso
cone, sochepo
koonand
-wek-
Small, Very, very little

Smells bad, stinks
Smells sweet
Smoke from fire
Snake
Snake, black
Snipe (Abenaki)
Snow
Snow Spirit
So far as, as far as, so far (part of
verbs)
Sober & chaste, she, he is
Some
maansu
nawhutchee
Small
Small, little
paushe
see who
see boy
teano (see "by and by")
kaukcowwewonck,
michachunck
machippiquat
sow-, sowan-, sowwan-,
sowwanCautantouwit
sowwanand
swowannakit
manit-
Some, half (see half)

Somebody, some one
Son
Soon
Soon (see instantly)
Soul
-anit, -it, -at, -and

abbomocho (hobbomock,
chepi)
nisquanem
Spirit names, common endings for

Spirit of death, healing, night,
northeast wind, the dark &
underworld
Spirit of mercy
nashauanit
Spirit of the creator
chepakeesaqunnamun
Spirit, departed, ghost

Spiritual meeting, combining
worship & sport
Sour, it is
South
Great Spirit
South Spirit
Southwest, the, south land
Spirit
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
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kunnam
sequanakeswush
takekum
sequan
sasequacup
askutasquash
uppakumineash
anequs
mishanneke
mishannequashunck
wuttahno
annock, anockqus
namitch
see "tree, branch"
machemoquat
cauk-sun-
Spoon
Spring month
Spring of water
Spring season
Spring, last
Squash
Squash seeds
Squirrel (1), chipmunk
Squirrel (2)
Squirrel-fur coat
Staff, walking stick
Star (see "moon, star...")
Stay, you ("soon"?; "wait"?)
Stick, a
Stinks, it
Stocking (dry?)
Stone (see "rock", "heavy")
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ntaquie
Stop, "I will cease, stop"
179
naaka
Stop (doing something)
Mashittashin
saumpi
see "English, the"
maskituash
wuttahmin
siukissunulloquaso
kauposh
neepun
neepunnakeeswush
nippawus & nippauus
keesuckquand
pashpisha
chouoeatch
yahen waiyauw
see "certainly"
cuppimachaug
wequash
Pesuponck
weekan-, week-, wekin-,
Storm, a
Straight, right, correct, just
Strange, stranger
Straw, hay
Strawberry
Strong, stout
Student, he is my (Nipmuck?)
Sturgeon (fish)
Summer
Summer month
Sun (also, moon, month)
Sun Spirit
Sunrise, it is
Sunrise, just before the sun rises
Sunset, almost
Surely, certainly
Swamp, thick brush
Swan
Sweatlodge
Sweet, nice, "warm"
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
wekinn-, wec-, weqeippoquat
awusse weekan
see reed
hogsuck, pigsuck
wussuckqun
qunnauqussu
spuckqsee enough
taubataumwock
michokat
naugum
wuttake wuche
naneeshaumo
pausuck naunt manito
yo chippachausin
yo ainshick meyi
wuche-, wutchenagau wutch
yo
kopp-, cuppyo asipaugon
kamootokick
-wassateauguock
teaququash
see where
anima-, anamaquttuck
neimpauog
yowa
see high, so high
neimpauog peskhomwock
see "at, in ..."
wunnaugonhommin
petouwassinug
mat nowewuttammo
wuttammsin & petasinna
wuttamauog
see "Pipe"
ENGLISH
Sweet, it is
Sweeter, it is
Sweetgrass
Swine
Tail
Tall, he, she is (see "tree, tall...")
Taste
Thank, thankful
Thanksgiving, They praise the
Creator
Thaw
Themselves, him
Then, afterward, last of all
There are 2 of us & etc.
There is only one God (Christian
meaning)
There the way (path, trail) divides
There the way (path, trail) lies
There, of, from, for, because of
Therefore, and therefore
These, where, this, here, what,
thence, whence
Thick, dense, blocked, deaf
Thick, fat. Thus so
Thieves
Thin
Things (animate), wampum beads
Things (inanimate)
This
This night, this day
Throat
Thunder
Thus, now (?)
Time
Thunderbolts are shot
To
To play dice game in a tray, dish
Tobacco bag
Tobacco, I dont take any
Tobacco, give me some
Tobacco, Indian
Tobacco pipe
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NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
anamakeesuck
wunnichsauop
weenat (should be weenan
?)
animanaukock
see also
see "it is too much"
noonacominash
-pitpummaumpiteunck
waskechesee fire, candle, ...
see "plantation"
Ape
apehana
anaqushauog,
anaqushanchick
paudowaumset
sunnuckhig
see "new traps"
see "old traps"
wunnaug
-auq-, -auqu-, -onqu-,
-ockqumihtuk, mihtuch, mihtuck
-mish, -muck, -misk, -uck
mehtuquand
pauchautqun
mishquatuck
wompimish
wudtuckun
wunnepog
paugautemisk
cowaw
wattap
sasaunkapamuck
see people of
pumpom
mat enano, mat eano
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Today (perhaps anama- = this)

Toe
Tomorrow
Tongue
63
52
9
50
Tonight (perhaps anima- = this)

Too
Too much, too dark, too late, etc.
Too little (of clothing)
Tooth
Toothache
Top, on top
Torch
Town, plantation, village
Trap for hunting
Traps for hunting
Traders
83
Trading post (Pequot-Mohegan)

Dictionary
174
Trap (falling stones)

Traps, new
Traps, old
Tray
Tree, long, tall, deep
Tree
Tree (see "mihtuk ...")
Tree Spirit
Tree, branch
Tree, cedar
Tree, chestnut
Tree, firewood
Tree, leaf
Tree, oak
Tree, pine & sharp
Tree, root
Tree, sassafras
Tribes
Tribes, Indian
Tribute, offering (of a deer skin to
Sachim in whose water the animal
was slain)
True, it is not true
120
50
50
39, 25, 27, 133
172
172
159
36
53, 63, 73, 101, 161
13, 60, 94, 116
95-6
94
96
95
19, 33
94, 195
96
To The Reader, 96
94
96
To the Reader
176
57
80
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
neyhom
neyhommauashunck
tackquiwock
-tauhauna-sesnochisquaonchick
naumpishquehick
keesuckqui, keesucquiu
yo awautees
pitch
mesh
see meat
-moua-, -mau-, maua-,
-mouewepe
see Grammar Table
see Part I, Verbs
achie
wuttunnene
machemoqussu
otan
chickekihtuckquaw
nquittakeesiquockat,
nquittakeespummishen
see "staff"
wusswaquatomineug
see money
natouashockquittea
nickauick anawsin
see purple rim
machequoce
wompam
see periwinkle
see lost
keenomp & muckquomp
missinnege
ENGLISH
Turkey
Turkey-feather coat
Twins
Unable (in compound verbs)
Uncle
Unclean people
Underneath
Unparched meal
Upwards, towards heavens
Use this
Used before a verb to show future
tense
Used before a verb to show past
tense (related to mahche in
Natick dialect)
Venison
Verb modifier, completes action,
"ceases action"
verb modifier, word used as an
accusation or demand
Verbs, grammatical forms
Verbs, root and stems for
Very (used when wunna
inappropriate) (see much, very)
Victory
Vile stinking person, he, she is
Village, town, plantation
Violent
Virgin, marriageable
Walk, one day's
Walking stick
Walnut
Wampum beads
Wampum maker
Wampum, pincer to hold beads
and smooth them
Wampum, purple shell/bead
Wampum, string or belt of
Wampum, type of
Wampum, white
Wandering, lost
War captains
War chief
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39, 136
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8, 57, 34, 70, 86, 142, 194
8-9, 34, 57, 70, 142-3, 38,
54, 73-4
17, 159-60, 176, 98, 39

139, 189, 142-3, 179
55, 194
188
43
3, 141, 166
164-5
29
64
95
165
157
157
115
184
188
81
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
matwauonck
mattwakkaonk
War, battle
War dancing
onuttug
negonshachick
mecautea
ayeuteaen
War, half-moon of
War leaders in battle
Warrior (enemy)
Warrior (your side)
matwauog
nip
-paug-, -pog-, -pag-
waunaquese
see how far
mattaasu
mayi, meyi
yo anuckquaquese
mittummayaucup
see "there the way..."
nukkone mayash
Warriors, enemy
Water (to drink)
Water at rest (pond, bay, etc.),
river, sea
Water in motion (river, etc.)
Water, across the water, other side
of
Water, have you no water?
Water, high water (tide)
Water, lake, sea, ocean
Water, ocean, sea
Water, pond
Water, river (usually, long one);
extended in space or time
Way, a little
Way, far
Way, little (not far)
Way, path
Way, so little a way
Way, the way you went before
Way, divides
Ways, the ancient ways, customs
neenouwin
aumaunemun
wekineauquat
tocketussinnammin3
wunnegin
checkesuwand
wunnauchicomock
wetuomanit
wetuomuck
matnowetuomeno
wekick
nekick
We (some of us)
Wean, to
Weather, fair
Weather, what do you think of
Welcome!
West Spirit
Wetu , firehole (chimney)
Wetu Spirit
Wetu, from the
Wetu, I have no wetu (I live alone)
Wetu, in his, her
Wetu, in my
-tuckakam-, acawmmannippeno
keesaqushin
-kom, -komm, -kum
see sea
see pond
seip-, sep-, sepa-
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184
184
183
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183
10, 12
12, 84, 111, 125
90, 109
3-4
10
110
106, 131, 133
75, 94-5, 108

72
3, 75
68-70
72
70
Dictionary
150
82
82
17
124
39
124
3
4
31
31
This is properly a verb.
82
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
kekick
potop
waskeke
see where
tou wuttinsin
teaqun, teaguun, teaqua
see where
-atch, -etch, -itch, -utch,
-otch, -ch
Wetu, in your
Whale
Whalebone
What
What manner of man?
What, thing, money
When
When it is, when it has, of,
indefinite or involuntary activity
chenock, chenock
naquombeg
see tou, ta, ...
tou nishin meyi
tiyush
tuckiu, tiyi
tou auteg
When, when as before
tou, taa, toc, tuc, tunna,

tunnock
cauompsk
womp, wompi
awaun ewo
awan-, awaun,awauo,
awanick (plural)
missesu
tawhich, tawhitch,
tawhitche
segoumittamus
weewnquittocaw
wetu
munnotaubana
neesquttow
abockquosinash
pettuckakaun
wetuomemese
pussough
see pitch (future tense)
Where (see at, in, ...)

Where lies the way?
Where, can (see at, in, ...)
Where, can (see at, in, ...)
Where, do you know where it is?
(see at, in, ...)
Where, whither, whence, what,
how (see at, in, ...)
Whetstone, grinding stone
White, wampum & things white,
bright, of the morning light
Who is that?
Who, one, someone, nobody
Whole, the (of fish, etc.)
Why
Widow, widower
Wife
Wife
Wife, I have one wife (two, three,
four--same page)
Wigwam
Wigwam fine embroidered mats
for
Wigwam, longer house w/ 2 fires
(and other number of fires)
Wigwam, mats for
Wigwam, round house
Wigwam, small [moonlodge]
Wildcat
Will
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34-5
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3-7, 166
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155-6, 160, 191
35
4, 20, 33, 35, 38, 41, 54, 57,
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136, 183
113, 175
6, 43, 71, 76, 143, 182-3,
186
146
3, 6, 147
146
147
3-4, 31
32
32
32
31
31
103
83
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
wopatin (written "nopatin"-probably a mistake by R.
Williams)
wunnagehan or
wunnegin waupi
-din, -sin, -tin
cummattagehuckamen
nummattagehuckamen
touwuttin
sachimoachepewessin
nanummatin & sunnadin
chepewessin
chekesu
nanockquittin
nummattagehuckamen
cummattagehuckamen
paponetin
wunnagehatch
mattagehatch
cowunnagehuckamen
see crooked
papone, papon
papapocup
paponakeswush
wauontam
taupowauog
wech-, echwet-
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Wind, the east
86
Wind, a fair
87
Wind, common endings for

Wind, it is against you
Wind, it is against me
Wind, south wind
Wind, strong northeast [word
Sachim gives meaning strong]
Wind, the north
Wind, the northeast
Wind, the northwest
Wind, the southeast
Wind, the wind is against me
Wind, the wind is against you
Wind, west
Wind, when the comes fair
Wind, when the wind is cross
Wind, you have a fair
Winding
Winter & fish-type
Winter last
Winter month
Wise man, councilor
Wise men, wise speakers, priests
With (1), along
With (2), accompany
85-7
87
87
muchquashim, moattoqus,
natoqus
moattoqus
ncummoottamockqun
notaqus
natoquashunck
squaw
Wolf
Wolf, black
Wolf, the wolf has robbed my trap
(deer, etc.)
Wolf-fur coat
Woman (see "wife", "mother")
wenise
squauanit
chepasquaw
squaus auhaqut
see tree
ockgutchaun
pahpahsa
Woman, old
Woman Spirit
Woman, the dead
Woman's mantle, cape
Wood
Woodchuck or groundhog
Woodpecker (Chippewa)
85
85
85
86
86
86
87
86
87
87
87
66-7, 86 116
66
66
141
128
35, 70, 187
57, 70, 166, 172, 187, 190,
146, 150
103, 119, 174
103
174
119
27-8, 15, 105, 120, 124,
134, 146, 202
27
124
202
120
103
84
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
etouwawayi
mat weshegganunno
anakausu
mittauke
cautummo
yaunedg
nquittecautummo
tashecautummo
wesaui
nux
as
keenouwin
keen
cowunnagehuckamen
see new
Wuskeene
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Wool on both sides

Wool, there is no wool (on
garment)
Words, additional vocabulary
listings
Worker, laborer
World, the (see "land", "earth")
Year
Year, last
160
161
Year, one (& others)

Years, how many
Yellow (see "plague")
Yes (in speech, also said as
"ahhe", "ahha")
Yet, still, before (used with verbs)
You (plural) & we (all of us)
You (singular)
You have a fair wind
Young
Youth, a
66
66
191, 196
5, 35
Book, Vol. 1
98
131, 139
66
66
2, 10, 18, 34, 72, 110, 200

135, 169
2, 6-7, 14, 38, 141, 190
87
27
85
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
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BY NARRAGANSETT4
abockquosinash
achie
acoh
acouwe
ahauqushpapone
ahtuquand
ainshik
akam-, acawm-ake-, -aki-, -akee-,
-auke-, -auki-
-and
-amak, -amag, -ammauqu
anakausu
-anam, -ant-, -aunt-
anamakeesuck
anaqushauog,
anaqushanchick
anaskhig, anaskhom
anawsuck
4
Wigwam, mats for

Very (used when wunna
inappropriate) (see much, very)
Deer, hide shirt
In vain, for no purpose (verb
modifier)
Sharp winter
Deer Spirit
Lies, the way or path
Water, across the water, other side
of
Land, earth
The word auke means literally
mother earth. Perhaps Earth
Spirit is auke-anit.
see -anit
Fish (2)
Worker, laborer
Indicating states of mind, feeling;
e.g.. musquantam = red + minded =
angry
Today (perhaps anama- = this)
Traders
32
55, 194
Hoe
Shells (see body)
98-100
156
119
77
67
69
3-4
4, 8, 9, 39, 65, 72, 91, 92,
94, 98, 100, 105, 230, 131,
133, 134, 135, 139, 165,
192, 203
113
98
27, 123-4, 138, 182-3, etc.
63
159
See last section, Alphabetical by English for information on the entries in Part II.
86
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
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anequs
animanaukock
-anit, -it, -at, -and
anittash
annauk, annaukan
annock, anockqus
anouant
anum
ape
apehana
aquequnnitteash
aquene
aquie, ntaquie
Squirrel (1), chipmunk

Tonight (perhaps anima- = this)
Spirit names, common endings for
Rotten, when it is rotten
Mat
Star
Harvest, at
Dog
Trap for hunting
Traps for hunting
Lands, old; worn out planting fields
Peace, calm, truce, no war
Do not do, stop doing (used before
verbs as a "prohibitive")
aquie mishash,
aquie mishhommoke
aquie wopwauwock,
aquie wopwauwash
as
asauanash
-ash
Do not name the dead
104
83
124-5
101
19
66, 79, 80, 133
100
104-105, 172
172
172
94
182
12, 40-1, 69, 74, 76, 129,
150, 179, 182, 186, 189,
202
202
Peace, hold the peace
129
2, 10, 18, 34, 72, 110, 200
179
36 & throughout A Key
atauskowaug
-atch, -etch, -itch, -utch,
-otch, -ch
Yet, still, before (used with verbs)

Painted stones for gambling game
Plural for inanimate nouns; also seen
Grammar Table); see -og
Net
Hemp
Lobster
Animal
Raw, natural, edible, gourd, rattle
Green
Grass, herb, meadow
Snake
Squash
Guard, the
Guard, There is a guard, sentry set
up
Not yet
At, in, of, to, place of, where, it is,
here, when it is
Rulers, nobles, Council Members
When it is, when it has, of, indefinite
or involuntary activity
attitaash
attuck & noonatch
Blueberries, hurtleberries
Deer (1)
ashap-, ashopashappock
ashaunt
-ashim, -shim, -washim
ask-, asqaskaski
askeet-, maskitaskug
askutasquash
askwhitteachick
askwhitteaug
asquam
-at, -et, -it, -ot, -ut, -ag, -og
112, 172
172
114
103, 105
14, 101
191
19, 96, 199
105
101
185
185
35
11-13, 82-3, 200 &
Throughout A Key
128, 141
63, 65,69, 83-4, 86-7, 1434, 183, 119, 33, 188, 196,
35, 100
97
104, 175
87
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
auckuck, ockuck
audta, autah, autawhun
aukeeaseiu
aumanep
aumpatabaun
aumsuog &
munnawhatteaug
aunan & qunneke
aunckuck
-auq-, -auqu-, -onqu-,
-ockquauquiegs
auqunnash
ausup, mohewautah
auwusse
awan-, awaun,awauo,
awanick (plural)
awaun ewo
awaun nakommit
awaunagussuck
awemanittin
awepu, awepesha
awusse weekan
ayatche & conkitchea
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Kettle
Loincloth, "apron"
Down, downwards, towards earth
Fishing line
Day, it is broad day
Herring
15
120, 161
39
115
62
11
Deer, a doe (aunan = "female")

Heathcock or pinnated grouse or
prairie hen or partridge or pheasant
Tree, long, tall, deep
104, 175
89
Household things
Barns
Raccoon
see "audta"
More, it is more
Who, one, someone, nobody
36
101
103, 119
ayeuteaen
Who is that?
Nickommo, Who makes a feast?
English, the (strangers)
Deer, their migration (running)time
Calm, storm calms
Sweeter, it is
Often, as often as, as many times as
not
Warrior (your side)
Canounicus
capatcaukcaukashunck
cauompsk
cauquat
causkCautantouwit
cautummo
-chaun
chaschauquaquock
checheke mautsha
checkesuwand
chekesu
Sachim's name
Ice, frozen
Stocking (dry?)
Deer, skin of
Whetstone, grinding stone
Arrow
Deer skin (dry?)
Great Spirit
Year
Nose
see "tashe-"
Englishmen (sword-men)
Long lasting
West Spirit
The northwest wind
53, 63, 73, 101, 161
14
4, 20, 33, 35, 38, 41, 54, 57,
72, 76, 110, 129-30, 131,
136, 183
35
129
59
176
109
14
44
Dictionary
57, 140, 203
84
120
176
157
184
176
66
50, 103
38,59
168
124
86
88
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
chenock, chenock
naquombeg
chepachepasotam
chepasquaw
chepeck
chepewessin
-chick, -ick
chickauta
chickauta weta
chickechickegin
chickot
chogan
chouoeatch
comishoon
cone, sochepo
cosaume
cowauwaunemun
cowaw
cowsnuck
cowunnagehuckamen
cowwewonck,
michachunck
cummanitoo
cummattagehuckamen
cuppimachaug
cutshausha
cuttokaso
cuttoso
cuttow
-din, -sin, -tin
-e, ese
eatawus, eataubana
eataubana
eatch, enatch
een-, nan-, eneippoquat
-eiu, -uiu
eiu or nniu
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When, when as before
9, 168
Spirit, departed, ghost

Sachem, the dead
Woman, the dead
Departed, separated, the
Wind, the southeast
Plural for 3rd person plural verbs
("they")
Burn (see fire)
Fire, the wetu is on fire (see burn)
Violent
Hatchet, warclub
Fire, destructive, fever
Blackbird (spotted)
Sunrise, just before the sun rises
Canoe, your canoe
Snow
Give, you give too much (food, etc.)
Lost, you are lost, wandering in the
woods (used as a humorous saying)
Tree, pine & sharp
Cows
Wind, you have a fair
Soul
85, 202
202
202
202
85
53, 136 & elsewhere
You are a God

Wind, it is against you
Swamp, thick brush
Lightning
Have you a mother?
Have you a father?
Fireplace (1)
Wind, common endings for
At the end of some nouns, verbs,
may be a silent letter
Old (see kich-)
Old traps
Be as, say as is, your will
Same, ordinary, plain, male, of tribal
people (see -omp)
Sweet, it is
Direction (upwards, etc.)
Is it so?
126
87
72
84
reconstructed
28
32, 2
85-7
Throughout A Key
139, 195
187
164-5
164-5
32, 139, 195, 179
89
67
108
83
12
132
To The Reader, 96
104
87
130, 135
161, 172
172
141, 190
To the Reader, 8, 142-3,
105, 133, 136, 57
15
39, 79
5
89
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
-ek,-at, -ik, -ick, -ock,

-ocks
-emes
enewashim
eneick & awwusse
-es, -ese, -s
At, of (possession, trait)
Throughout A Key
Small, Very, very little

Animal, male
Further
Small, little
59
105
43
10, 31, 32, 37, 40 (?), 82,
120
-ese
-ese
see -es, "-ese"

verb form (ending)
-etch
etouwawayi
-euck, -ock, -og, -uck,
-oog
ewachim
ewachimanit
ewo
see "-atch"
Wool on both sides
People of, tribes
goatesuck
hawunshech
-hock
hogsuck, pigsuck
homes
honck
hopuonck
hoqhub-hub-hub
Goats
Farewell, good bye
see -ock, -hock
Swine
-ick
-ick, -chick
-ickqun, -uckqun, -ucqun
Indiansuck
-i
-ip, -up, -it
Corn
Corn Spirit
He, him, her, she
Man, old
Goose (Canadian)
Pipe, tobacco (small, personal)
Hook
Come-come-come, gambling
expression
see -uck
see "-chick"
Attached to Objective Indicative
verbs (He, sheme &
He, sheyou(sg.). These endings
probably mean the object (me &
you) should be plural. Roger
Williams is perhaps mistaken in his
translation
Indians (English name)
Attached to nouns or verbs to mean
something is happening now
(sokenuni = it is raining now)
At end of some verbs, means the
verb is past tense
5, 52-3, 162, 164 (see pg.

52 footnote in Aquidneck
Indian Council translation)
160
98
2, 13, 134-6, 141-2, 144,
146, 189
104
9
104
27
90
45
116
Dictionary
68, 76, 123, 138, 174, 183,

188-9, 195
166
15, 34, 65-6, 134, 70
90
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
Attached to verbs to indicate a

question, usually past tense verbs
verb modifier for motion
(movement) into an enclosure, like a
wetu. see -at, -it, -ot, ...
see "-atch"
And
Enclosed structure
Nail, finger
Pregnant, she is getting (??)
Soon
Mirror, looking glass
6, 8, 66, 147-8
89
112
2, 6-7, 14, 38, 141, 190
184
135, 169
194
180
keesaqushin
keesuck, keesak, keesucq
Crow, raven
Sturgeon (fish)
Great Spirit
You (singular)
War captains
You (plural) & we (all of us)
Eye
Spiritual meeting, combining
worship & sport
Water, high water (tide)
Day, time, sky, heavens, weather
keesuckkeesuckquand
-keeswush
keesuckqui, keesucquiu
kekick
-kemkemineiachick
kich-, kutch-, kuttkihtuckquaw
kiske
kitompanisha
kitonuck
kits
kittcickauick
kittummayi (see "maish")
kitummayi mes nechaw
kokokehom, ohomous
-kom, -komm, -kum
koonand
Face
Sun Spirit
Season, moon, month
Upwards, towards heavens
Wetu, in your
Secretly
Murderers (see -kem-)
Great, old, elder, principal or main
Virgin, marriageable
Near to, beside, next to
Day, daybreak
Ship, boat
Cormorant (bird)
Playing field
Just now, as soon as
Delivered, she has just
Owl (kokokehom = little owl)
Water, lake, sea, ocean
Snow Spirit
-is, -mis, -as, -us

-it (see "-at, -it ...")
-itch
ka
-kamuck, -comuck
-kasskatou eneechaw
kaukkaukakineamuck,
pebenochichauquanick
kaukont
kauposh
kautontowit, cautantouwit
keen
keenomp & muckquomp
keenouwin
keesaqkeesaqunnamun
7, 35, 142
2, 190, 133-4
94, 180, 39, 141
52
148
165
165
110
39, 63, 67, 79, 82-3, 131-3,
135
49, 156
125
66-7
39, 79, 133
31
76, 136, 172
136
27, 104, 107, 175
29
77
63
107
91
180
6, 77
149
89
106, 131, 133
91
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
kopp-, cuppkowawwaund
kuhock
kunnagqunneuteg
kunnam
kunnosnep
kushkusitteuks
kussuttah
kutchinnu
kutchicheginash
kuttiomp
kuttowma-, man-, mano-, -na(see "-uo...")
maansu
mach-, mache- mauchmachemoqussu
machequoce
machetu
machippog
machipscat
machit
maish, kittummayi
mamaskishauonk
mammausa
mamockiuwash
mannippeno
manit anawat
manitmanittoo wussuckwheke
masaunock
manusqusedash
mashackquineaug
mashittashin
maskituash
maskit
ENGLISH
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(1936 EDITION)
Thick, dense, blocked, deaf

Canoe, pine
Body, your
Great, a greater size (of eel-pot)
Spoon
Anchor
Fear (1)
Hot weather
Hot, it is hot
Man, middle aged
Hatchets, your
Deer (2) (large male)
Noise (trumpet)
None of, cannot, not
160, 72, 196

108
130
116
36
109
186
83
83
27
165
104, 175
184
10, 186, 156
Sober & chaste, she, he is

Bad, not, poor, sour, stink
148
14-15, 26-7, 42-3, 56, 115,
132, 142, 163, 168-9, 175,
194-5, 142, 159, 193-4
43
157
168-9
184
68
36
6
196
Vile stinking person, he, she is

Wampum, string or belt of
Poor, a poor man
Arrow quiver (empty?)
Rock, stone path
Bad, evil, it is
Just, just now
Disease, pox (chicken pox, small
pox, syphilis?) see "plague" &
"adulterer"
Adulterer, he, she is
Great (plural)
Water, have you no water?
(see ma-)
Manitoo commands
Spirit
God's Book of Writing (Bible)
Flax (rope material)
Beans (bush)
Have no food, we (they) have no
food
Storm, a
Straw, hay
Dressing for wound, (see askeet)
146
133
10
139
54, 103, 122-4, 126, 131-2,
134-6, 138-9
136
172
11
15
109
19
199
92
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
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(1936 EDITION)
-mat-, -matta- (mattux is

plural form)
Bad, not, unpleasant (when in a

verb) or before a verb to mean "not"
-matmat enano, mat eano

mat weshegganunno
mat nowewuttammo
matche manitoo
Brother
True, it is not true
Wool, there is no wool (on garment)
Tobacco, I dont take any
Evil Spirit
matnowetuomeno
mattauntum
mattaasu
mattacuckquaw
mattagehan
mattagehatch
mattand, mattanit
Wetu, I have no wetu (I live alone)

Old, very old & decrepit (of a
person)
Near by, it is, not far from here
Cook, a
Wind, a cross
When the wind is cross
Bad, evil Spirit
3-5, 7-10, 12-13, 33-4, 38,

40-2, 44, 55-8, 60, 68, 74-5,
87, 132, 135-6, 142-4, 169,
192, 198, 201
28-9, 34
57
161
44
Dictionary
4
27
mattaquat, cuppaquat
mattauqus
mattux (Pequot)
mattwakkaonk
Overcast weather, it is
Cloud, a
Not (plural), no
War dancing
matwauog
matwauonck
-mau-, -mauamauchauhom
mauchauhomwock &
chepeck
maumichemanege
maunauog, mishaunawock
maunetu
mauta-
Enemy warriors
War, battle
see "-moua-"
Dead man, the
Dead, the
mayi, meyi
mecaut-, mecauntmecautea
mechimucks
mehtuquand
mequin
mesh
Needle, a
Many, a great many
Healer (conjurer)
Finish, complete, cease action
(cf. -moua-)
Way, path
Fight
Warrior (enemy) (see "ayeuteaen")
Food, eat
Tree Spirit
Feather
Verb modifier, used before a verb to
show past tense (related to
mahche in Natick dialect);
see pitch
3, 75
14
87
87
Dictionary
83
83
135
Dictionary
183
183
202
202
164
60, 132
198
54, 55, 77, 160, 98
68-70
183
183
13
Dictionary
8-9, 34, 57, 70, 142-3, 38,
54, 73-4
93
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
meteauhock
metewis
Miantunnomu
micheme
michokat
mihtuckquashep
mihtuk, mihtuch, mihtuck
-min-, -menmish-, miss-, mash-,
mass-
Periwinkle, for white wampum

Earth, black
A Sachim
Forever, always, never
Thaw
Eel-pot
Tree
Berry, fruit, corn
Big, large, whole, much
-mish, -muck, -misk,

-uck
mishanneke
mishannequashunck
mishannock
mishauneteash,
maunetash
mishcup, sequananmaumishittashin
mishittommockon
mishoon
mishittouwand
mishoonemese
mishquashim
mishquamaygat
mishquatuck
mishqui-, mishqua-
Tree
115
192
137, 140, 185 (?)
71, 136, 169, 201, 138
84
116
13, 60, 94, 116
11, 15, 95-8, 100-1
To the Reader, 15, 60, 68,
80, 83-4, 87, 106-7, 132,
142, 109, 112-113,175,
182, 188
95-6
Squirrel (2)
Squirrel-fur coat
Morning star
Great store, much of
104, 175, 119

119
80
60
Breame (fish)
Wind, great, a storm
Flood, a great
see -oon
Canoe, large
Canoe, little
Fox, red
Red, the Red Road (Indian way)
Tree, cedar
Red, blood & things red (salmon,
fox)
Earth, red
Rain, a great
Quarrelsome person
Whole, the (of fish, etc.)
War chief
Frost, a great
Bass
Rivers, when they are thawed
Ebb, low ebb, tide
Wife
World, the (see "auke")
Way, the way you went before
see "-uo ..."
Snake, black
Black wolf
113
169
110
mishquock
mishunnan
miskisauwaw
missesu
missinnege
missittopu
missuckeke
missuppaugatch
mittaeskat
mittamus
mittauke
mittummayaucup
-mo
moaskug
moattoqus
107
108
103
96
15, 51, 96, 103, 113, 133-4,
160, 162, 191-2, 198
192
83
183
113, 175
188
84
112
84
110
3, 6, 147
131, 139
70
105
103
94
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
moce or unuckquaquese
or mocena
mockuttasuit
mocussinass
mohcontmohew- (see "ausup")
mohewonck
mohowaugsuck &
mauquauog
-monak-, -maunekmoneash
moos, moose
mooshim
moosquin
mosq, paukunawwaw
mosquand
-moua-, -mau-, maua-,
-mouemouanaqushanchick,
mouanaqushauog
mow-, mo-
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Instantly, soon
34-5
Dead, person who wraps up the dead

in mats before burial
Moccasin, shoe
Leg
Raccoon
Raccoon-skin hide/coat
Cannibals (Mohawk Indians,
Iroquois)
Cloth & colors of
Money (English word)
Moose
Fox, black (sacred animal)
Deer, fawn
Bear, a
Bear Spirit
Verb modifier, completes action,
"ceases action"
Dealers, peddlers, chapmen
185
Black, soiled
42, 52, 103, 105, 191, 116,

119
42
42, 191
49
148
124
103, 119, 174
mowashuck
mowimscattuckmuchickehea
muchquachuckquand
muchquashim, moattoqus,
natoqus
-muck
-muckmuckiis auhaqut
muckucki
muhock
Iron metal
Black
Forehead
Fruitful (w/ children)
Child Spirit
Wolf, black wolf
see -mish, -muck, ...
Boy, son, child
Child's cape, mantle
Bare, without wool (see "-muck-")
body, the
munnannock
munnotaubana
munnote
munnucks
munnunnug
muppacuck
Moon, star in general (stars?)

Wigwam fine embroidered mats for
Basket (& quantities)
Brant, brantgoose
Milk
Hairlock, scalplock
120
52
103, 199
119
16
160
152
105, 120, 175
104, 175
80, 175
Author's construction
17, 159-60, 176, 98, 39
112
3, 28, 190
120
160
Dictionary
66
32
100-1
90
150
48
95
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
naaka
Stop (doing something)
naim, namitch
namas
namitch
nanashawnanashoweramaccon
naneeshaumo
nanepaushat
Nanhigganuck
By and by, soon

Fish (1)
Stay, you ('soon"?, "wait"?)
Between, midway
Flood, half a flood
There are 2 of us & etc.
Moon Spirit & moon
Narragansett People. Other
spellings include
Nanihiggansicks
Nanhiggonsicks
Narriganset
Narragnset
Nahigonsicks
Also known as Nahicans by Whites
Also, too, same
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Themselves, him
Evening, night
Light, in weight
Underneath
Bottom, on the
nanick
nanisquegachick
naugum
nauk-, nok- & wunnauq
naukonnaumnaumatuck
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35
111, 133
10
63, 110
110
8
125, 133
To the Reader
58
132, 142, 166
166, 142
63, 67, 83, 170
44, 73
39, 136
39
96
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
naunt
nauwot
naw-, naunawwatick
nawwauwquaw
nawhutchee
Only, alone
Far away, a great way off
Far
Far off at sea
Noon, afternoon
Some
naynayoumewot
ncummoottamockqun
notaqus
neane
necawni, negone
neech-, nechneechipog
neen
neenouwin
neepun
neepunnakeeswush
neeshauog &
nquitteconnauog
neesneechahettit
neesquttow
Horse
Wolf, the wolf has robbed my trap
(deer, etc.)
As, like, so, such, in the manner of
First, original, before, in front
Child
Dew
I, me
We (some of us)
Summer
Summer month
Eels
negone, nnegon
negonshachick
neimpauog
neimpauog peskhomwock
nekick
nemauaninnuit
nemauaninnuit
nepauus, nippauus
nesick & nashoqua
netasuog
netop
netop kihkita
netop machage
newutche, wuche
(see "wuche")
neyhom
neyhommauashunck
-nich-
Enough food for 20 men

Wigwam, longer house w/ 2 fires
(and other number of fires)
In front, lead, ahead, before
something, someone
War leaders in battle
Thunder
Thunderbolts are shot
Wetu, in my
Knapsack, satchel, carrying bag
Provisions for the way
Moon, month, sun
Comb, A
Cattle (plural)
Friend, my friend
[from netu + -omp = a person
born in my wetu, my kinsman]
Listen to me, my friend
Friend, not so
Because, for, before (see "There,
of")
Turkey
Turkey-feather coat
see -natch-
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132
75
3, 75
75
63
Dictionary
104
174
Throughout A Key
12, 70, 72, 184
148, 140
84
2, 39, 73, 128, 141-2, 189
65-6
66
113
14
32
184, 70, 72
184
84
84
31
15
15
66
43
102
2, 7, 9, 15, 35, 38, 131, 135,
132, 138
135
132
138 & elsewhere
89, 119
119
97
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
nickauick anawsin
nickommo
nickommo
nickummat
nip
nippawus & nippauus
nips
nisquanem
nittauke &
nissawanwkamuck
nitteauguash
nkeke
nkequashunck
nnappi
nneickomasu &
awwassese
nnin-, enenniu
nninnuog
-no
nochisquaonchick
nokace & witchwhaw
nokannawi
nokehnonamautuckquaheginash
nenotehunck
nonowwussu
noonacominash
noonat
noonatch
noos-, noonsu
noosup
note
nowweta
npeshawog &
pussekesesuck
nquit (see "pawsuck")
nquitpawsuck
nquittakeesiquockat,
nquittakeespummishen
nquittaqunne
ENGLISH
Wampum, pincer to hold beads and
smooth them
Nickommo, a celebration or
mourning ceremony
Feast, dance
Do, easy to do, weak
Water (to drink)
Sun (also, moon, month)
Pond
Spirit of mercy
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157
126-8
Land, my land
126, 128-9
41
10, 12
79, 133
73
Dictionary
94
Money, my
Otter
Otter-skin hide/coat
Dry (weather)
A little further
129, 163
103, 119, 162
119
83
43
Man (tribesman) (2)

see eui
Indians, human beings
see -uo...
Unclean people
Mother, my
Night, it is
Meal, parched
Debts
Paddle, oar; my paddle, oar
Lean, it is
Little, it is too little (of clothing)
Not enough
see "attuck"
Nurse
Beaver (male)
Fire in general, fever
No matter
Bird, fowl
Number one (other numbers on

pp. 22-26 in A Key)
Month, one (One moon)
Walk, one day's
22, 64-6, 132-4, 147-8
Day, first (& others)
132-4
To the Reader
136
28
62
11
168
109
175
120
14
150, 28
103
32, 195
43
88, 133
66
64
98
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
65
66
148
ntinnume
nuhock
nukkone (see "negone")
Day, one day (& others)

Year, one (& others)
Children I have had one child
(etc.)
Wife, I have one wife (two, three,
four--same page)
Penny, one (& other coins)
"I will cease, stop (doing
something)"
Man, he is my man
Body, my
Ancient
nukkone mayash
Ways, the ancient ways, customs

Dictionary
nulloquaso
Student, he is my (Nipmuck?)
29, 150
nummattagehuckamen
The wind is against me
87
nummattaquaw
Noon, before
62
nummaumachiuwash
Offerings, presents, goods,

belongings
129
nummish-
I find him
173
nunnowwa
Harvest time
100
nux
Yes (in speech, also said as

"ahhe", "ahha")
5, 35
-o
see "-uo ..."
-ock-, -hock-
Body, shell
130
ockgutchaun
Woodchuck or groundhog
103
nquittaqunnegat
nquittecautummo
nquittekea
nquittocaw
nquittompscat
ntaquie
147
153
179
141
130
Trumbul 1903 Natick
Dictionary
99
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
ogwhan
Plural for animate nouns; also seen

Grammar Table)
see -ash
Adrift, boat is
ohtomp
Bow, shooting

Dictionary
-omp
Man (tribesman) (1) or male

see netop & een-
25, 27, 104, 133, 175, 184
-ompsk-
Rock, stone
153, 157, 163
onawangonnakaun
Bait
117
-onck
see -unck
onuttug
War, half-moon of
184
-oon, mishoon
Canoe, boat, ship
8, 72, 106-8
opponenau-
Oyster
114
osh, nosh, kosh
Father, my father, your father
28, 2, 33-4
osucontuck
Haddock-like fish
113
-ot
see -at, -it, -ot, -ut
otan
Village, town, plantation
-otch
see "-atch"
-pac-
Violent
-og, -wock, -ock, -uck,

-aug
108
3, 141, 166
48
100
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
pahpahsa
Woodpecker (Chippewa)
-panna-, -peno-
A modifier in verbs which reverses

the meaning of the primary root
9, 55-6, 162
panna-
Five (see pages 22-26 in A Key for

other numbers)
22-26, 133, 147,153-4, 163
papapocup
Winter last
66
paponakeswush
Winter month
66
papone, papon
Winter & fish-type
66-7, 86 116
paponetin
Wind, west
86
papoos
Baby
6, 28
papuckakiuash
Brittle
156
paq-
see pauq-
pashpisha
Sunrise, it is
62
pashpishea
Moon, it is up
79
pauchautqun
Tree, branch
94
paucotche
Already, it is ready
42
paucottauwat
Deer, buck
175
paucottauwaw
Deer, great buck
104
paudowaumset
Trading post (Pequot-Mohegan)

Dictionary
101
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
-paug-, -pog-, -pag-
Water at rest (pond, bay, etc.), river,

sea
12, 84, 111, 125
pauganaunt
Fish, cod
111
paugautemisk
Tree, oak
96
paugautemissaund
Canoe, oak
107
paugcotche
Certainly, surely
149
paugcotche nechauwaw
Delivered, surely she has had a

baby (Paugcotche = surely)
149
paukunnum
Dark (cf. bear)
64
paumpagussit
Sea Spirit
125
paupock
Partridge
89
paupaquonteg
Key, a
42
pauq-, paq-
Dry
83
pauqui, pauuquaquat
Holds up, it holds up (weather)
83
pausawut
Near to, almost, nearly
200
paushe
Some, half
34
paushesui
Moon, half
80
pausuck naunt manito
There is only one God (Christian

meaning)
132
Paweshaquaw,
paushaquaw
Noon
62
102
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
ENGLISH
PAGES IN A KEY
(1936 EDITION)
pawsuck
One
25-6
pee-
Small
68, 40 (?), 107
peemayagat
Path, a little (see way)
68
peewasick, peewasicks
Little, small things (basket, fish,

etc.)
101, 116
peewasu
Little, it is
107
peewauqun
Have a care, be concerned
40
penayi & pemisquai
Crooked, winding, it is (see bent)
42, 46
pennashimwock
Beasts
102
Peno-
see "panna-"
pequawus
Fox, gray
103
Pequttoog
peshaui
Pequots, a Tribe in Connecticut

Blue/violet flower. Ooni is blue in
Natick dialect
Gun (thunder stick)
Sweatlodge
Inside, in
To the Reader, 188

97, 191
peskunck
pesuponck
petpetacaus
peteaugon, peetaugon
petouwassinug
pettuckakaun
pishquehick
-pitpitch
pok-, poqu-, posk-
English waistcoat
Rib
Tobacco bag
Wigwam, round house
Unparched meal
Tooth
Used before a verb to show future
tense (see mesh)
Divide, break, half
popowuttahig
Drum (European import)
84, 184
197
7, 35, 121, 143, 169, 100,
120
120
134
121
31
15
50
8, 57, 34, 70, 86, 142, 1945
40, 101, 150, 165, 32, 113,
115, 175
184
103
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
poquauhock
poquesu
poquesu
poskattuck
potop
-potoupowwaw
puckpuckquatchick
puckwheganash &
mucksuck
pummaumpiteunck
pumpom
pupannouwachick
puppuckshackhege
pussough
pussuckseesuck
pusuckquakohowauog
puttuckquapuonck
puttuckqui
puttuckqunnege
quawquonikeesakat
quay
quequecum
quequisquitch
qunn-, qunqunnamaug
qunnascat
qunnauqussu
qunnekamuck
qunnequawese
Qunnihticut, Quinnibticut
qunosqushqussqussuck-, qussaqquttow
quttuck
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Quahog, clam (purple rim used for

wampum beads)
Half, half of (of fish, deer, etc.)
Deer (half of), it is
Deer, whole one
Whale
Make, build (as a fire); see Part I,
Verbs
Holy man, Medicine Man
Smoke from fire
Outdoors, outside
Awl blades
115
Toothache
Tribute, offering (of a deer skin to
Sachim in whose water the animal
was slain)
Liars
Box, a
Wildcat
Birds, fowl
Meet to play football
Playing arbor, football
Round, it is
Round cake, loaf, bread
Day, a long day
Hello (northern dialects)
Duck, a
Robin, a (Pequot-Mohegan)
50
176
Long (see how long" & "water,

river)
Lampries (fish)
Length, great
Tall, he, she is
Long house
Deer, little doe
Connecticut River, on the, of the
Pike (fish)
Fear (2)
Move , relocate
Heavy, stone
Fireplace (2)
Throat
113, 175
175
175
113
33
127
32
41, 198
156
136
42
103
88, 133
179
179
12
12
63
90
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12, 53, 112, 116, 161, 1367, 196
112
161
53
180
104
To the Reader, 137
116
135-36, 186
36, 46
44, 73, 96, 157
32
50
104
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
quttukquaquaw,
panicompaw
sachim
sachim, saunks
sachimaupan
sachimmacommuck
sachimoachepewessin
sanaukamuck
sanomp
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Dinner, after dinner
62
Kingbird
Sachem, chief, village leader, wife
of sachem
Sachim, he that was once the
Sachem here
Sachim's wetu, wigwam, house
Wind, strong northeast [word
Sachim gives meaning strong]
Garden or enclosed land
Man, a
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2, 34, 85, 92, 128, 136-7,
140-1, 144, 176
202
sasaso
sasaunkapamuck
sasemen
sasequacup
saumpi
saunketippo & ashonaquo
saunks
sauop
saupuck
sautaash
scannemenseasons of the year
Snipe (Abenaki)
Tree, sassafras
Cranberry
Spring, last
Straight, right, correct, just
Head-dress
Sachim's wife
Tomorrow
Gun powder
Raisin
Seed (1), corn
Seasonsthe Indian year seems to
have had at least 6 seasons
1. Aukeetemitch (when he
plants) seed time
2. Squan (when water runs
again or when water is
long?) early spring
3. Nepun midsummer
4. Nnnowa (the corn dries,
grows dry) harvest time
5. Taqunck (beginning of
cold) fall of the leaf
6. Papne winter
-seet-, -setsegouseip-, sep-, sepa-
Foot
Widow, widower
Water, river (usually, long one);
extended in space or time
Sail, a
Spring season
Spring month
sepakehig
sequan
sequanakeswush
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NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
sequnnock
sequt
-sessesek
-sh-, -shau-shim
shottash
shwishcuttowwauog
shwo-, swoa-, shoasickqu-sim-, -sum-, -sae-sin
siskisssiuckat
siukissuskat & mauchetam
skeetomp
sochepo
sokenun & anaquat
sokenug
sow-, sowan-, sowwan-,
sowwansowwanand
spuckqsquantaumuck
squasese
squashim
squauanit
squaus auhaqut
squaw
squtta, squuta
suckauhock
suckisumhup
sunnuckhig
swowannakit
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Horsefish
Black soot
Uncle
Rattlesnake
Inferior quality, less than (some
words); also, involuntary action
see "-ashim"
Shot for gun
Constellation, Belt of Orion (3 fires
in a wetu")
Eight
Break (for succotash)
Action of heat, heating, burning
see -din
Clam, black (see "quahog)
Hard, hard to do
Strong, stout
Ebb
Man, a
see cone
Rain
Corn, a pile of
South
South Spirit
Taste
Door, at the door
Girl
Animal, female
Woman Spirit
Woman's mantle, cape
Woman
Fire in general & fire spark
Purple rim of quahog for wampum
Dark color, people, etc.
Beaver (female)
Trap (falling stones)
Southwest, the, south land
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114
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27
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124, 130, 135
124
15
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32, 195
115
160, 191
103
174
135
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NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
-t-
-tatacktackkunck, weskhunck
tackquiwock
-tah-, -tatahenauatu
tahk-, tak-, taki-, taq-,
tauktahsuog manittowock
takekum
takitippocat
tamoccon
-taptaquonck
tashe- (sometimes
mispelled by Roger
Williams as "chas-")
tashecautummo
tashuckqunne
tatackom
taubataumwock
taubi-, taup-, taub-tauhauna-tauntaucocks
taunek
taupowauog
taut
taumacocks
tawhich, tawhitch,
tawhitche
tawhitch yo enean
teano
-teaqun-, -teaguun-,
-teaqua-, -teaugteaququash
teauguock
tiaquockaskeesakat
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Inserted between personal prefix

with nouns and adjectives beginning
with a vowel. Also used with some
verb stems beginning or ending in a
vowel; e.g., nittake = n' + (t)auke =
"My land"
see "-tah-
Grind, beat (as corn)
Pounding mortar
Twins
Heart
Price, what price
Cool, cold
3-7, 9, 44, 54, 59, 70, 74,

88, 94, 98, 114, 141, 150 ,
166, 172, 176, 178-9, 186
Gods, how many are there?

Spring of water
Night, it is a cold
Flood, a
see -tup-
Autumn, Fall, harvest
Many, so many, how many, how
much (see how long, English
section, above)
Years, how many
Long, How long?
Porpoise
Thanksgiving, They praise the
Creator
Enough, thankful
Unable (in compound verbs)
Daughter
Cold weather
Crane (bird)
Wise men, wise speakers, priests
Sheepshead fish
Flood, upon the flood
Why
131
94
18
109
15, 37
37
29
51, 96, 97, 189
161
18, 75, 82-3
65-6
9, 23-6, 35, 66-7, 85, 131,
147-8, 153-5, 162-4, 188
66
9
113
134
Do so, Why do you do so?

Soon
What, thing, money
7, 14, 35, 120, 57, 128, 134

37
2, 28
83
93
128
113
110
6, 43, 71, 76, 143, 182-3,
186, 57
143
165, 74
6, 3, 105, 162-3, 169, 129
Things (inanimate)
Things (animate), wampum beads
Day, it is a short
185
161
63
107
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
tiaquonqussu
-tin
-tinnea-, -tinea-, -tin-
-tippoc-, -tuppactiyush
tocketussinnammin5
-tonetopu
tou, taa, toc, tuc, tunna,
tunnock
tou anuckquaque
tou auteg
tou nishin meyi
tou nuckquaque
tou nuckquaque yo wuche
tou wuttauqussin
tou wuttinsin
tou, taa, toc, tuc, tunnock
touwuttin
touwuttin
towiuwock
toyusk
-tucktuckiu, tiyi
tummock
tummockquashunck
-tunck, -tunk
tunna
-tup, -tap-, -tip-tuppactuppautea
-uck, -ick, -it, -eg
-uck
-unck, -onck, -onckon
unhappo kosh
-unna
unnaugh
5
ENGLISH
Short, he/she is
see -din
Sounds with no apparent meaning,
used in verbs as "ornamentation" or
perhaps as emphasis
Night
Where, can
Weather, what do you think of
Mouth
Frost, a
Where, whither, whence, what, how
(see at, in, ...)
Big, how big?
Where, do you know where it is?
Where lies the way?
Much, how much (money, etc.)?
Far, How far from here?
Deep, how deep?
What manner of man?
Where, whither, what, how
Wind, south
South wind
Orphans
Bridge
Water in motion (river, etc.)
Where, can
Beaver (in general)
Beaver-fur coat
Cousin
Where (see "tou, taa, ...")
Head
see -tippoc
Or (?)
Attached to some nouns to indicate
location, meaning in, to, of, at,
there, from (see "-euck")
see "-mish, muck..."
Collection of things (see "Endings
for groups of things...", English
section)
Is your father at home?
see "wune-..."
He is there
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52
3-7, 166
86
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29
94
90, 109
34-5
103, 119, 161
119
29
48, 112, 194-195, 120
133
3-4, 31, 46, 166, 180 &
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33-4
34
This is properly a verb.
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NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
-uo, -unno, -no, -o, -mo
(see "ma-")
-up
uppakumineash
uppeke
-ut
-utch
wachit-quashouwe
wame, waumet
wanna, wunna
wanne howanne
-washim
wasick
waskwaskechewaskeke
-wassawattap
wauchaunat
waucho
waukaunosint
wauki
waumausu
waumsu
waunaquese
wauontam
wautaconwautcone
wautuckwues
wauwunnegachick
wauwunnockoo
wawwhunnekesuog
-waw, -quaw
waweecocks
waweekanash
wawwunes
wech-, echwechekum, kitthan
weekan-, week-, wekin-,
wekinn-, wec-, weq-
ENGLISH
Attached to nouns, these endings ask
the question, Is there ...?, "Have
you?" or state "None of", "There is
none of"
see -ip
Squash seeds
Shoulder
see "-at..."
see "-atch..."
Presently, now
All, it is all
see "wunna"
There was no one left alive
see "-ashim"
Husband, a
see "wusk-"
Top, on top
Whalebone
Thin
Tree, root
Guardian
Hill, mountain
Fort
Bent, crooked, it is (see crooked)
Loving, she, he is
Downhill, it is
Way, a little
Wise man, councilor
English, the (coat-wearer)
Coat-wearer
Hare, conie, rabbit (small)
Good, very good
Fat
Mackerel (fish)
Condition, state, status
Figs
Corn, sweet
Deer, buck (young)
With (1), along
Sea, ocean (wechekum may be
shore, sea coast))
Sweet, nice, "warm"
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106, 133
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NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
weenat (should be weenan
?)
weeteantamwock
weetimoquat
weewweeyous
-wekwekick
wekinan
wekinash
wekineauquat
wekitppocat
wenise
wenomen
wepe
wequai, wequawequannat-, wekinan
wequash
wequashim
weque, -wekwes-, wesewesaui
wesauashauonck
wesheck
weskhunck
wetwetweta wetedg
wetompatitea
wetu
wetuomanit
wetuomemese
wetuomuck
wiaseck, eiassunck,
mocotik, punnetunck,
chauqock
-wock
womp, wompi
wompiscannemeneash
see spirit, departed
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50
Live, they live in great joy

Smells sweet
Wife
Meat
As far as, so far (part of verbs)
Wetu, in his, her
A lit fire
Reed (wekininashquash may be
sweetgrass)
Fair weather
Night, It is a warm night
Woman, old ("a little bent over")
Grape, raisin
verb modifier, word used as an
accusation or demand
Light, the light, it is light
Fire, candle, torch, a light
Swan
Moonlight (lightish)
As far as, so far, at the end
Name (1)
Yellow
Plague, the (cf. " wesaui ")
Hair, fur
see tackkunck
Name (2)
With (2), accompany
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146
13, 172
44
31
33
96
Fire, woods are on fire

Friends, let us be
Wigwam
Wetu Spirit
Wigwam, small [moonlodge]
Wetu, from the
Knife. The English were called
Chauquaquock (sword-men);
words are from different dialects.
see -og
White, wampum & things white,
bright, of the morning light
Seed, white corn seed
Separate, departed
82
18
27
15
139, 189, 142-3, 179
64, 132-3
33
90
64
44
5, 133
191, 196
196
48, 161
6
57, 70, 166, 172, 187, 190,
146, 150
73
190
3-4, 31
124
31
3
37
52, 88, 90, 95, 98, 108, 115,

155-6, 160, 191
98
110
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
wompan
wompanand
wompatuck
wompiminwompimish
wompissacuk
wompmissaund
wonck, wonkatack
woonand, wunnand
wopatin (perhaps mispelled
"nopatin" by R.Williams)
wopwawnockquat
wuche-, wutchewuchipaquamen
wudtuckun
wuhock
wune-, wunne-, -unne-,
-unna-, -tunna-, -wunwunegin
wunna, wanna (see
"achie")
wunnagehan or
wunnegin waupi
wunnagehatch
wunnake
wunnam
wunnanameanit
wunnauchiwunnauanounck
wunnauchicomock
wunnaug
wunnaugonhommin
wunnauquit
wunnegin
wunnekesu
wunnepog
wunnetu
wunnetu nitta,
wunnetu nta
wunnich-
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Dawn, it is bright day, it is full day
light
East Spirit
Goose, snow
Chestnut
Tree, chestnut
Eagle, osprey, fishhawk
Canoe, chestnut
Again, more, once again, some more
Good Spirit
The east wind
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Good, it is
Much, very (for hunger, sleep, etc.)
184
42, 72, 132-4, 138, 163,
166
97
19, 33
130
19, 36, 51, 53, 189, 161, 56,
87
36
12, 20
Wind, a fair
87
When the wind comes fair

Belly, the
Red paint
North Spirit
on the top of
Shallop, boat
Wetu , firehole (chimney)
Dish, bowl, tray
To play dice game in a tray, dish
Evening, it is
Welcome!
Proper (respectful), she, he is
Tree, leaf
Good, true, pure, proper, truthful
My heart is good (pure, true)
87
52
191-2
124
39
107
39
36-7, 179
179
63
17
148
94, 195
6, 51, 53, 189
51, 189
Toe
52
Confusion, panic, hubbub

There, of, from, for, because of
Barberry (red berry, prickly pear)
Tree, firewood
Body, his
Good, pleasing, favorable
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NOUN, ADJECTIVE
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wusame, wussaum,
wussume
It is too much, it is exceedingly
14, 109
wushowunan
wusk-, wask
Hawk
New, young, originally, first,
beginning
Bone
Land, ground, new and enclosed (as
a garden)
A youth
New traps (for hunting)
New ground (unplanted)
I fear I shall, it will, I will, it may
happen
Pigeon, dove
Much, it is too much (cooked, etc.)
(see give, you give too much)
Late, it is too
Many, there are too many (people,
etc.)
Little, it is too little
A youth
Deer, the hind part of
Tail
Walnut
see "wuche"
About nothing, out of nothing, last
of all
Paddle, oar
Strawberry
Staff, walking stick, cane
Our hearts are true, pure
93
27, 94, 100, 146, 161, 172,
91, 59, 188
113, 175
94
Then, afterward, last of all

Tobacco, Indian
Pipe, tobacco (calumet)
Tobacco, give me some
Walking stick, Cane, staff
Long house poles
Plantation, town, village
Ear
Harvest, when the corn harvest is in
Victory
Hither
133-4
45
45
15, 44
74
32
166
50
100
188
43
wuskanwuskaukamuck
wuskeene
wuskapehana
wuskaumamuck
wuskont
wuskowhan
wussaume & wusame
wussaume tatsha
wussamemaunauog
wussaumepewasick
wuskeene
wusseke
wussuckqun
wusswaquatomineug
wutche
wutche machaug
wutkunck
wuttahmin
wuttahno
wutthouwash
wunnganash
wuttake wuche
wuttamauog
wuttammagon
wuttammsin & petasinna
wuttanho
wuttapuissuck
wuttotanick
wuttow
wuttunnemitch-ewachim
wuttunnene
wuttush
27
172
94
34, 41, 76, 108
91
13-4, 60, 63, 101, 109, 162
63
60
101
27
175
175, 114
95
42, 132-3
108
96
74
112
NARRAGANSETT
NOUN, ADJECTIVE
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yahen
yahen paushaquam
yahen waiyauw
yaunedg
Almost, approximately
Noon, almost noon
Sunset, almost
Year, last
62-3
62
63
66
yo
4, 6, 9, 34, 44, 46, 63, 69,

71-2, 80, 86, 91, 194, etc
69
202
175
34
yo wutche
yo wuttuttan
yoh, yow, yo, yau
These, where, this, here, what,

thence, whence
There the way (path, trail) lies
He that was once here among us
Thick, fat. Thus so
High, so high (of the sun, etc.) A
way of telling time
Use this
There the way (path, trail) divides
Right hand (to the right side)
Left hand (to the left side)
Deep, thus deep
Moon, new
Harvest last
Moon that shines till dawn (old
moon)
From here
High, so (of moon, sun, etc.)
Four
yotaanit
yote
yowa
Fire Spirit
Fire, domestic
Thus, now (?)
yo ainshick meyi
yo apapan
yo asipaugon
yo autant
Yo awautees
yo chippachausin
yo mtunnock
yo nmunnatch
yo ntauqussin
yo ockquitteunk
yo taquonticup
yo wompanammit
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69
69
69
73
80
66
80
72
79
22-26, 65-7, 101, 153-5
147, 163, 172
125
32
44
113
GRAMMAR
TABLE
py
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Summarizing
Five Types of Verbs In this Dialect
[see NOTES and Examples for explanation of use of table]
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I. Grammar of Narragansett Verbs (Present Tense): Five Types

TYPE
INFINITIVE
II
III
***men (min, mun)
***em (un)
***iwin (in, iin, ouin, ouwin,

owin)
n'***iwin (in, iin, ouin, ouwin,

owin)
k***iwin (in, iin, ouin, ouwin,
owin)
(w')***iwin (in, iin, ouin,
ouwin, owin, es)
n'***awunan
k'***awunan
k'***awunan
(w')***awunan
INDICATIVE
I
n'***am (um)
n'***men (min, mun)
n'***em
You (sg.)
k'***am (um)
k'***men (min, mun, )
k'***em
He, she, it
(w')***am (um)
(w')***wi (i, o, eu, u, su, wa, )
We (excl.)
We (incl. )
You (pl.)
They
n'***amumun
k'***amumun
k'***amumwoo
(w')***amwock
n'***men (min, mun)

k'***men (min)
k'***amwoo
(w)'***wock (og, uog, uck, uock)
(w')***aui (a, au, aw, aun , ayi,

)
n'***amun
k'***amun
(w')***auock (aug, ouoog, auog)
Indefinite
IMPERATIVE
You (sg.)
Him, her, it
Us
You (pl.)
Them
Indefinite
SUBJUNCTIVE
I
You (sg.)
He, she, it
We
You (pl.)
They
IV
n'***
k'***
(w')***o ()
n'***umun
k'***umun
k'***umwoo
(w')***umwock
(uwock, wock)
***awun
***ash (as, ass, sh)

***atch
***amutta
***amoke
***amhettich
***amunach
***ish (sh, s)
***itch (tch)
***ituck (iteuck, tuck, etuck)
***ike (eke)
***hettitch
***esh (ash, es, ess, )

***atch
***auta (aunta, aunto)
***unk
***auhettitch (auhetti)
***amon
***aman
***ock
***amock
***amck
***hettit
***ean (yean, un, n)

***ean (ayean, an)
***ont
***auean (ayean, ouean)

***hettit
***auhettit
***ous
***
***auock (auog)
***oke
***oan
***itch (utch, etch)
Indefinite
II. Grammar of Narragansett Verbs (Present Tense): Five Types & Regular Form
TYPE
OBJECTIVE
INDICATIVE
I-You (sg.)
k'***ous (aunsh)
I-Him, her
I-Them
n'***
n'***oock
You (sg.)-Me
You (sg.)-Them
He, she-Me
k'***i (e)
k'***ook
n'***uck (unck, eug,
qun)
k'***uck
He, she-You (sg.)

He, she-Us
They-You (sg.)
III
k'***ous (aunsh, aush, k'***ous

oush, ish, aunch,
itch)
n'***auock (auog)
IV
k'***ous
n'***uckwunonock
They-Them
***auhettuock
OBJECTIVE
IMPERATIVE
You (sg.)-Me
You (sg.)-Him,her
You (pl.)-Us
We-Us
***amiinnea
***inish
***auhettemina
k'***ous (aunsh,
ish, )
n'***auock (ouoog)
k'***i (e)
k'***i (e)
n'***uck (unck,
uckqun)
k'***uck (uckqun)
n'***uck (uckqun)
k'***uck (qun)
k'***uck (ickqun)
k'***uckwock
(ickquock)
n'***uckwock
REGULAR
k'***ous (ish, oush,

aunsh)
n'***au
n'***auock
k'***uckwock
They-Us
OBJECTIVE
SUBJUNCTIVE
You (sg.)-Me
II
k'***i (e)
k'***auock
n'***uck
k'***uck
n'***uckqun (ickqun)
k'***uckwock
n'***uckwock
(uckquock)
***auhettuock
***iinnea
***inish
***(i)innean
***itea
k'***ean (iean)
***iinnea (iin)
***iinnea
***iinnea
***auhettitea
k'***ean
NOTES
(1) INFINITIVE Mode is the form "to___" (for example, "To plant corn").
(2) INDICATIVE Mode refers to simple statements or questions ("I am tired"; "When did you come?", etc.).
(3) IMPERATIVE Mode refers to commands or pleadings ("Sit !", " Come !").
(4) SUBJUNCTIVE refers to subordinate mode ("I thank you"; "Let us be going"; "Being that he has come"; "When it snows").
(5) OBJECTIVE INDICATIVE Mode refers to transitive verbs denoting a subject-object relation ("I love you"; "He asks me", etc.).
(6) OBJECTIVE IMPERATIVE Mode refers to subject-object commands or pleadings ("You show me the way!", etc.).
(7) OBJECTIVE SUBJUNCTIVE refers to "subordinate" mode involving a subject and object.
(8) REGULAR means this is the normal or most common Verb Type.
(9) sg. means "singular"; pl. means "plural"; excl. means "exclusive" ("we, but not you"); incl. means "inclusive" ("all of us"); *** indicates the stem or
root word; the symbol is the "null symbol" meaning nothing goes there.
(10) Some forms are taken from the Natick dialect (listed in italic as in n'***amumun); the forms given in parentheses are alternative forms for a prefix
or suffix; for example, (um) in Type I or (min, mun) in Type II or (w') in all Types.
(11) A t is often inserted before a root/stem beginning with vowel, and after a root/stem ending in a vowel (e.g. npaketam is form n'***am, Type I, with
the root being pake). Some forms involve adding or deleting other letters before adding the prefix or suffix (e.g., taquatchowash is Imperative, Type
II with stem taquatchowau; the form is ***ish and the u has been dropped before adding suffix sh).
EXAMPLES
Nowatam = "I understand" is a first person singular Indicative Type I verb. Table form is: n'***am. The stem or root word is waut (to
understand), indicated by ***.
Toktuck! = "Let us waken!" is an Imperative Type II verb (first person plural). Table form is: ***ituck (etuck). The stem word is tok
(to awaken), indicated by ***.
Tawhich mat mechan? = "Why do you not eat"? is a second person singular Type V Subjunctive verb. Table form is: ***oan. The stem
is mech (to eat), indicated by ***.
Schepwutch = "When it snows" is a Type II Subjunctive (indefinite) verb. Table form is: ***itch (utch, etch). The stem is schep
(snow), indicated by ***.
Cowutous = "I understand you" is Objective Indicative of the form I-You (sg.). Table form is: k'***ous. The stem or root word is
waut (to understand), indicated by ***. Note that the word is spelled with a c and the form is spelled with a k.
Kokoteminnea myi! ="Show me the way!" is an Objective Imperative verb of form You (sg.)-Me. Table form is: ***amiinnea. The
stem or root word is kokot (to show), indicated by ***.
Mequanamnnean!= "You (pl.) remember us!" is Type II Objective-Imperative of form You (pl.)-Us. Table form is: ***(i)innean. The stem or root
is mequanam (remember) indicated, by ***.
Narragansett Verb Forms selected from
Hagenau, Walter P. (1962). A Morphological Study of Narragansett Indian Verbs in Roger Williams A Key into the Language of America.
Providence, RI: Brown University (M.A. Thesis), and the authors.
Natick Verb Forms selected from
Goddard, Ives and Kathleen J. Bragdon (1988). Native Writings in Massachusett (Parts 1 & 2). American Philosophical Society Memoir 185.
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society.
APPENDIX
This Appendix contains information on several special grammatical features of Narragansett
Indian verbs and other speech parts:
accommodating /t/
reduced vowels
glottal stops
passive-voice verbs
verb participles
obviation
conjugation of verb for stem waut (to understand, believe, know)
The examples selected to demonstrate the use of these features provide additional insight
into the formation of words in Narragansett. To understand the examples given in the
Appendix, the reader must consult the Grammar Table for the elements of verb types I
through V. Refer to Part I & Part II of the text for the words that exhibit these features in A
Key.
Figure 1
Rules for Accommodating /t/
in Narragansett Indian Verbs
SUMMARY
Verbs are selected from Walter P. Hagenau (1962) , A Morphological Study of Narragansett Indian Verbs., Providence, RI: Brown
University (M.A. Thesis)
If a stem (***) begins in a vowel (v), add a /t/ before the stem (***)
If a stem (***) ends in a vowel (v), add a /t/ before the suffix (S)..
If a stem (***) ends in a consonant (c ) and a suffix begins with a consonant (c ), a reduced vowel (usually /a/, /e/, /i /) is usually added
between the stem (***) and the suffix (S). See Figure 3
The above rules apply also to nouns with a personal prefix (e.g., my land = nittauke = n' + (t)auke)
Some Type II verbs follow different rules (especially stems which end in /-au/) such as peyau. See Figure 2
Dictionary of Symbols and Abbreviations

Symbol or
Abbreviation
Meaning
P
S
***
v
c
(c)***(c), etc.
Indic.
Imper.
I, II, etc.
t
?
:
+
=
Prefix
Suffix
Stem
Vowel
Consonant
The stem (***) begins with a consonant (c) and ends with a consonant (c) (e.g., waut,
"to understand, believe, know ").
Indicative mode
Imperative mode
Type of verb (I, II, III, IV, V, A-E, M, U). The first number of a verb indicates its type (e.g.,
verb 201 is a Type II verb).
Apostrophe used after a prefix (e.g., n) to represent a vowel sound (usually reduced vowel)
Letter added before or after stems according to rules specified in Table of Forms and
elsewhere (indicated as (t) or /t/)
glottal stop
reduced vowel
Plus sign used to show prefix, stem, suffix components of Narragansett words
Equal sign means translates as or breaks down to
General Relation : P + (v,c)***(v,c) + (v,c)S

A verb usually consists of Prefix + Stem + Suffix, symbolized as P + *** + S
A stem (***) begins and ends with either a vowel (v) or a consonant (c). A suffix (S) begins with either a vowel (v) or a consonant (c).
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#
1
2
3
4
PREFIX
P
P
P
P
STEM
FORM
(v)***(v)
(v)***(c)
(c)***(v)
(c)***(c)
(v)***(v)
(v)***(c)
(c)***(v)
(c)***(c)
SUFFIX FORM
(w/ notes)
USUAL VERB FORM

with (t) and Reduced Vowels
(w/examples & notes)
(v)S
P + (t)*** (t) + S
most (except II indic.)
Verb 223
(v)S
P + (t)*** + S
Verb 302, 306, 314, C-2 (?)
(v)S
P + *** (t) + S
Verb 128, 201, 209, 238, 323 (?), M-13
(v)S
P + *** + S
most indic. & imper. in

I, III, IV
normal case, no (t)
(c)S
P + (t)*** (t) + S
Type II indic.
Verb 212, 218-219 (exceptions)

Most likely in Type II
(c)S
P + (t)*** (reduced vowel) + S
Type II indic.
Verb 229, M-8, M-12

(c)S
P + *** (t) + S
Type II indic.
Verb 264, 268

(c)S
P + *** (reduced vowel) + S
Type II indic.
No (t)
NOTE: See Figure 2 for exceptions for Type II verbs (Case # 1 & 3)
Examples given on next page
Examples of Accommodating /t/

for 8 Cases Listed in Table of Forms
Stem/Translation
1.
Verb # & Verb Form

P + (v)***(v) + (v)S
aque, make peace, capitulate, a subject"
2.
223
kuttackquetous = k + (t)aque(t) + ous
ntacquetunck = n + (t)aque(t) + uck
P + (v)***(c) + (v)S
esh, come, go
302
noteshem = n + (t)esh + em
kuttinshem = k + (tin)esh + em
wut(e)shauock = w + (t)esh + auock
aukewush = auke + (w)esh, go by land
306
ntiaukewushem = n + (t)aukewush + em
kuttiakewusahaumis = k + (ti)aukewush + (aumis)
aunchemok, tell news
314
cuttaunchemokous = k + (t)aunchemok + ous
nutauncheo(m)cououg = n + (t)aunchemok + auock
C-2
kuttassammish = k + (t)assam + ish
cuttassmiin ?
tassam, assam, give food, nourishment
3.
P + (c)***(v) + (v)S
pake, cast away, divorce
kowe, kowwe, coue, sleep, lodge

5
128
npaketam = n + pake(t) + am
paketash = pake(t) + ash
paketenish = pake(t) + inish
201
kukkowetous = k + kowe(t) + ous

kukkoweti = k + kowe(t) + i
aukeeteau, plant corn
mau, completes action
paushinu, divide
maua, completes action
wanaum:, wunnaumun:, aumun:, anaumw:,
naumw:, speak true
nockuskau, meet
209
nummautaukeeteaumen = n + (mau)(t)aukeeteau +
men
238
paushinumauatittea = paushinu(maua)(t) + itea
323
co(w)anaumatous = k + wanaum:(t) + ous
M-13
kunnockquskauatimmin = k + nockuskau(at) + men
4.
P + (c)***(c) + (v)S
Normal case, no (t) inserted
5.
P + (v)***(v) + (c)S
auchau, go hunting, fowling
ana?e, be going
aumpauchau, come from hunting
6.
P + (v)***(c) + (c)S
akes, play, score a game
aum, to fish
awau?, to use
7.
6
212
ntauchaumen = n + (t)auchau + men
218
ntanneteimen = n + (t)ana?e + men
219
ntaumpauchaumen = n + (t)aumpauchau + men
P + (c)***(v) + (c)S
229
ntakesemin = n + (t)akes: + men
M-8
ntaumen = n + (t)aum + men
kuttaumen = k + (t)aum + men
M-12
ntowewaukaumen = n +(t)awau?(au) + men
semu, to flee
wetzau, wechau, wet, accompany, go with
8.
264
nosemittaunckquock = n + semu(t) + uckwock
268
cowechauatimmin = k + wetzau(at): + men
wechauatittea = wetzau(at) + itea
P + (c)***(c) + (c)S
No (t) inserted
NONVERBS
aquie, cease, stop

auke, land
otan, village, town, plantation
page 179, A Key (1936 ed.)

ntaquie = n + (t)aquie
page 94, A Key (1936 ed.)
nittauke = n + (t)auke
page 166, A Key (1936 ed.)
wuttotanick = w + (t)otan + ick
Figure 2
Special Rules for ***(v) + (v)S TYPE II Verbs in Imperative & Subjunctive Modes
NOTE: Normally these verbs follow rules for accommodating /t/ for cases # 1 & 3 (Figure 1)
IMPERATIVE - you (sg.)
***ish (sh, s)
***wau + ish =
***wash
***au + ish =
***aush
***au + ish =
***ish
***a
+ ish =
***ash
***e
+ ish =
***ish
***i
+ ish =
7
IMPERATIVE - him/her
***itch (tch)
***au + itch =
***autch
IMPERATIVE - us
***ituck (iteuck, tuck, etuck)
***au + ituck =
***autuck
***e + ituck =
***etuck
***i + ituck =
***ituck
IMPERATIVE - you (pl)

***ike (eke)
***e + ike =
***eke
***au + ike =
***unk
***ish
SUBJUNCTIVE I
SUBJUNCTIVE you (sg.)
***ean (yean, un)
***ean (ayean, an)
***e + ean =
***e + ean =
***yean
***ean
***u + ean =
***au + ean =
***yean
***auyean
***au + ean =
***au + ean =
***aun
***ayean
EXAMPLE: IMPERATIVEyou (sg.)
peyau + ish =
peyaush
punnowwau + ish =
punnouwash
EXAMPLE: IMPERATIVEyou (pl.)
peyau + ike =
peyunk
SUBJUNCTIVE they
***hettit
***au + hettit =
***ahettit
EXAMPLE: SUBJUNCTIVEyou (sg.)

peyau + ean =
peyauyean
peyau + ean =
peyayean
Figure 3
Reduced Vowels & Glottal Stops
Dictionary of Symbols and Abbreviations
(see Figure 1 for others)
Symbol or
Abbreviation
P Prefix
S Suffix
***
v
c
(v,c)***(c)
?
/t/, /k/
:
Meaning
Stem
Vowel
Consonant
The stem (***) ends with a consonant (c) (e.g., nip, "die").
becomes or equals
glottal stop
Letters used by Roger Williams to indicate a glottal stop
reduced vowel
General Relation : P + (v,c)***(v,c) + (v,c)S

A verb usually consists of Prefix + Stem + Suffix, symbolized as P + *** + S
Reduced Vowels
A reduced vowel is sometimes placed between a stem (***) ending in a
consonant (c) and a suffix (S) beginning in a consonant (c) by the following
rule (see Cases 6 & 8, Figure 1, Table of Forms):
(v,c)***( c) + ( c)S (v,c)***(c ) + (reduced vowel) + (c)S
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Stem/translation
***
nip, nup
die
akes
play, score
wechuset, wepinnat
join together
assawompat
change money
neesquttonckqus
prate (like rooster)
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Verb
#
Verb
(reduced vowel underlined)
Form
***(c)(reduced vowel)(c)
217
kunnappamin
***p(a)m
229
ntakesemin
***s(e)m
231
***t(i)m
235
nowechusettimin
nowepinnatimin
kuttassawompatimmin
252
cunneesquttonckqussimmin
***s(i)m
*** t(i)m
naunt
fetch
pauquan
destroy
wetompat
be friends
tauntap
rest
wetzau, wechau, wet
253
kunnauntamen
***t(a)m
259
cuppauquaneimmin
***n(ei)m
265
***t(i)m
267
nowetompatimmin
cowetompatimmin
kuttauntapimmin
268
cowechautimmin
***(t)(i)m
323
***w(e)m
***w(a)w
***w(a)s
***w(a)y
***m(a)(t)
***p(i)m
accompany, go with,
be with
wanaumw:; wunnaumw:,
aumun:, anaumw:
speak the truth
man:ne
hate
C-14
nonaumwem
coanaumwem
wunnaumwaw
wunnaumwash
wunnaumwayean
coanamatous
nummanneug
maninnewauhettuck
***n(e)u
***n(i)n, ***n(e)w
Glottal Stops
The "glottal" sound is pronounced by stopping the air at the voicebox and then suddenly
releasing it. English slang "huh uh" contains a glottal stop before the 'uh'. Sample words in
Englishstop, milk
In Narragansett, Roger Williams seems to have used the letters /t/ or /k/ for the glottal stop (?) ,
as shown in the following examples
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Verb Type &

Word Stem/translation
Example of glottal stop (underlined)
Type II
asso?
foolish
Type II
ana?e
be going
Mixed Type verb
awau?
to use
assotu
assokish
anakish
ntowwaukaummen
PASSIVE VOICE VERBS

Algonquian languages, like the English language, contain a number of grammatical
features which gives the language its great flexibility to express thoughts and feelings in a
variety of situations and circumstances, to talk of the past, present or future, speak in an active or
passive voice, and so on.
Take the following two sentences in English-1. Al chose Bill. (ACTIVE VOICE)
2. Bill was chosen by Al. (PASSIVE VOICE)
The first sentence is expressed in the ACTIVE VOICEthe subject Al chose Bill (object).
In the PASSIVE VOICE, we turn the subject and object around. The object (Bill) was
chosen by the subject (Al).
Another example:
1. Al handed the ball to Bill. (ACTIVE VOICE)
2. Bill was handed the ball by Al. (PASSIVE VOICE)
In A Key into the Language of America, there are about 820 conjugated verbs (based on
about 320 roots or stems). The verbs can be classified into Types: I, II, III, IV, V, A, B, C, D, E,
M, U. In turn the verbs can be expressed as certain Modes or Moods: Indicative, Imperative,
Subjunctive, Objective Indicative, Objective Imperative, Objective Subjunctive. The Grammar
Table summarizes the formulas of prefix-root/stem-suffix that make up the Types I through V.
(In a latter section well see how to put sentences together using the Grammar Table). Many of
the verbs in A Key are assumed to be given in the ACTIVE VOICE.
In this section we indicate certain verbs that may be in the PASSIVE VOICE. The
following table lists these possible PASSIVE VERBS. The root or stem is underlined so that
you can piece together the others parts of the verb given. Recall sections of accommodating /t/
(e.g., verb 302 below), and other information given previously. Most of the passives seem to end
in some form of n (-ne, -ana, -na, -ant, -in, -on).
The Roger Williams translations dont always appear to be written in the passive voice.
The choice to call these verbs passive is made based on the prefix/suffix forms. A great deal of
uncertainty still exists in our understanding of this fascinating yet difficult and frustrating book
of 1643.
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Table of PASSIVE VOICE VERBS in A Key

VERB
NUMBER
VERB in A Key
TRANSLATION, & Page Number in

A KEY
(stem underlined)
(first # gives Type)
129
201
216
302
315
321
322
331
C-4
C-16
Wauchaunana
Kukkouene ?
Kakitonckque ban
Tuckoteshana ?
Kautanaushant
Tetupsha
As pummissin
Kitummayi nickeekon
Awaun
kukkakotemogwunnes ?
Wepe kukkemineantin
Keep this for me, p. 40

Sleep you?, p. 18
They are dead and gone, p 201.
Whence came you ? , p. 3
He being gone, p. 9
He falls down, p. 43
He is not yet departed, p. 200
I am just now recovered, p. 199
Who told you ?, p. 136
You are the murderer, p. 143
Kukkouene ? is perhaps translated Are you sleeping? The verb You sleep is
Kukkouemen . In this manner, we know Kukkouene is not SUBJUNCTIVE (form, ***ean
= kouean) because of the prefix.
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VERB PARTICIPLES
Many of the verbs classified as Unclassifiable (U in the text) may be examples of verb
participles. In Narragansett, verb participles have properties:
Transitive verb
Inanimate noun
Verb ends in ash, -ish
Take the sentence with VERB PARTICIPLE from p.14 of A Key:

Mat mesh nummanenash
I did not take them
This is a U verb (can not be easily classified as a regular verb with predicable prefix,
suffix terms to express Indicative, Imperative, etc.) The verb nummanenash (I take them)
ends in ash. The verb formulas in the Grammar Table (except for IMPERATIVE) do not
end in ash. We know this sentence does not have Imperative mode.
TABLE of SOME VERB PARTICIPLES in A Key
VERB NUMBER
VERB in A Key & Translation & page #

(-ash underlined)
U-11
U-11
U-23
U-25
U-27
128 ?
Mat mesh nummanenash,

I did not take them, p. 143
Cummammenash
Will you have my money ?, p. 163
Aquie wussaumowash
Do not ask too much, p. 162
Nnegonchemish
He sends (something) to me, p. 43
Cuppausummunnash
Dry these things (not IMPERATIVE
prefix k gives clue)
Npaketamunnash
I will cast him away, p. 44
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OBVIATION
-oh, -ah, -uh endings on 3rd person nouns and verbs

An important grammatical featurecalled OBVIATIONis seen in Algonquian sentences
when:
two nouns (or a pronoun and an animate noun)

in the 3rd person (he/him, she/her, or they/their, or a persons name)
are used in the same sentence with a verb so that
the animate noun or pronoun which is the object of a verb, and the verb
take the obviative endings -ah, -oh, -uh
OBVIATION
PROPERTIES
Inanimate nouns do not take the obviative ending.

This is only the simplest form of obviation. Another type (super obviation) occurs
when three third-person nouns or pronouns are used in a sentence; e.g., Basil struck Pierres
dog (He-Basil, he-struck his-Pierres dog with obviative endings on struck, Pierre & dog).
As an example of simple obviation, we present a reconstructed sentence (not taught or
given in A Key)the obviative endings are italicized.
Mesh nishuh attuckah
He killed a deer
We use mesh to show past tense (did kill) as Roger Williams uses it. In He killed a deer,"
we have a pronoun he as part of the verb, an animate noun deer and a verb killed (in 3rd person).
Obviation is on verb killed and animate noun deer (deer is the second third-person in the
sentence.)
A simple phrase like, the brother of him, is usually said with the obviative endings -ah,
-oh, -uh:
weematoh = the brother of him (oh is the obviative ending); linguists distinguish
obviative by translating the brother of him; we dont say his brother
ooshooah = their father (the father of them);
ussowesuoh Blue Eagle = His name was Blue Eagle (the name of him was Blue Eagle)
Roger Williams elementary phrase book does not give examples of obviationtalking
about him or her doing something with things (animate nouns, like animals, birds, etc.). When
we see speech involving him, her but the things (nouns) are inanimate, we dont have to use
OBVIATIVE case endings.
In the following sentences the OBVIATIVE case endings are in italic (oh)
Next page
Obviation is difficult to explain and understand. Standard treatments like Goddard & Bragdon (see PREFACE) arent trying to
talk to us poor Indians. An 1876 reference, which is very hard to get, is: James H. Trumbull, The Algonkin Verb.
Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1876, pages 146-171.
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EXAMPLES OF OBVIATION
ALGONQUIAN with Translation
NOTE
(accents omitted)
I kill a snake.
Nish askug.
His brother kills a snake.
Weemat nishuh askugah.
He killed a snake.
Nishuh askugah.
Black Dog kills a snake.
Moowanum nishuh askugah.
Black Dog struck Peters dog.
Moowanum togkuh Peterah anum??.
Black Dog he-struck him-Peters dog
NOT OBVIATIVE CASEnot in third person

Obviation on verb kills and object snake (askug)
Obviationone pronoun and 2 nouns in 3rd person
but we dont know the grammar for our dialect (see
Trumbull article in footnote for use in other dialects)
Another example of obviation comes from Goddard and Bragdon, Native Writings in
Massachusett, p. 591:
papaume wutche unmissoomissoh wuttahkuh
concerning about his grandfathers land (concerning/about his-grandfather his-land)
Notice the obviative endings (-oh, -uh) attached to his grandfather (unmissoomiss) and his
land (wuttahke). No verb is in this phrase.
SUMMARY
An important feature in Algonquian languages is called OBVIATION. In a simple sentence
involving animate nouns, pronouns, verbs, all in the 3rd person, obviation is used. Both the verb
and its object take obviative endings.
TYPICAL SENTENCE
SUBJECT
VERB
OBJECT
noun or
pronoun
animate noun
Obviative
Endings
-ah, -oh, -uh
Future efforts at reconstructing the language (to some extent) will have to take into
account this crucial feature in making sentences.
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CONJUGATION OF VERB
Type I
To Understand
The root or stem (***) is waut to understand, know, believe
TYPE I Verb, pages 8-9, 36, 56
(Italic forms are reconstructed or from Natick dialect with uncertain accents)
TYPE I
MODE
GRAMMATICAL
FORM
CONJUGATION
ENGLISH
TRANSLATION
INFINITIVE
INDICATIVE
I
You (sg.)
He, she, it
We (excl.)
We (incl. )
You (pl.)
They
n'***am (um)
k'***am (um)
(w')***am (um)
n'***amumun
k'***amumun
k'***amumwoo
(w')***amwock
nowatam
cowatam
watam
nowatamumun
cowatamumun
cowatamumwoo
watamwock
I understand
You (sg.) understand
He, she understands
We (excl.) understand
We (incl. ) understand
You (pl.) understand
They understand
IMPERATIVE
You (sg.)
Him, her, it
Us
You (pl.)
Them
***ash (as, ass, sh)

***atch
***amutta
***amoke
***amhettich
watash
watatch
watamutta
watamoke
watamhettich
You (sg.) understand!

Let him/her understand!
Let us understand!
You (pl.) understand!
Let them understand!
***amon
***aman
***ock
***amock
***amck
***hettit
watamon
wataman
watock
watamock
watamck
wathettit
I understanding
You (sg.) understanding
He, she understanding
We understanding
You (pl.) understanding
They understanding
SUBJUNCT.
I
You (sg.)
He, she
We
You (pl.)
They
Indefinite
15
TYPE I
GRAMMATICAL
FORM
CONJUGATION
OBJECTIVE
INDICATIVE
I-You (sg.)
I-Him, her
I-You (pl.)
I-Them
You (sg.)-Me
You (sg.)-Him,her
You (sg.)-Us
You (sg.)-Them
He, she-Me
He, she-You (sg.)
He-Him, her
He, she-You (pl.)
He, she-Us
He, she-Them
We-You (sg.)
We-Him, her
We-You (pl.)
We-Them
You (pl.)-Me
You (pl.)-Him, her
You (pl.)-Us
You (pl.)-Them
They-Me
They-You (sg.)
They-Him, her
They-Us
They-You (pl.)
They-Them
k'***ous (aunsh)
n'***
k*** unumwoo
n'***oock
k'***i (e)
k***
k***imun
k'***ook
n'***uck (unck, eug, qun)
k'***uck
oow***oh (uh)
k*** ukkou
n***uckqun (ickqun)
oow***oh (uh)
k***unumun
n***un
k***unumun
n***unnog
k***imwoo
k***au
k***imun
k***auoog
n***uckwock
k'***uckwock
oow***ouh
n'***uckwunonock
k***ukoooog
***auhettuock
cowatous
nowat
cowatunumwoo
nowatoock
cowati
cowat
cowatimun
cowatook
nowatuck
cowatuck
oowatoh
cowatukkou
nowatuckqun
oowatoh
cowatunumun
nowatun
cowatunumun
nowatunnog
cowautimwoo
cowatau
cowatimun
cowatauoog
nowatuckwock
cowatuckwock
oowatouh
nowatuckwunonock
cowatukoooog
watauhettuock
I understand you (sg.)

I understand him, her
I understand you (pl.)
I understand them
You (sg.) understand me
You (sg.) understand him,her
You (sg.) understand us
You (sg.) understand them
He, she understands me
He, she understands you (sg.)
He, she understands him, her
He, she understands you (pl.)
He, she understands us
He, she understands them
We understand you (sg.)
We understand him, her
We understand you (pl.)
We understand them
You (pl.) understand me
You (pl.) understand him, her
You (pl.) understand us
You (pl.) understand them
They understand me
They understand you (sg.)
They understand him, her
They understand us
They understand you (pl.)
They understand them
OBJECTIVE IMPERATIVE
You (sg.)-Me
You (sg.)-Him,her
We-Us
***amiinnea
***inish
***auhettemina
watamiinnea
watinish
watauhettemina
You (sg.) understand me!

You (sg.) understand him, her!
We understand us!
(Let us understand each other!)
MODE
OBJECTIVE SUBJUNCT.
You (sg.)-Me
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
About the Authors
he research of Moondancer Dr. O'Brien and Strong Woman Julianne Jennings into the
regional lost American Indian languages has appeared in the American Indian Culture and
Research Journal of the University of California and Gatherings: The En'owkin Journal of
First North American Peoples of Canada. Their first textbook, Understanding Algonquian
Indian Words (New England), is used in Native language classes in New England, and Dr.
O'Brien teaches the language to regional tribal peoples through the Rhode Island Indian
Council. They have provided Indian language translations for two public monuments in
Rhode Island, one endorsed by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities and the other
endorsed by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
trong Woman attended the Algonquin Indian School where she received intensive training
in the Massachusett language (Natick) by Chief Spotted Eagle. She is a member of the
Rhode Island Indian Council. Her biography is in Who's Who in America for her
outstanding achievements in Indian language reconstruction, traditional arts, crafts, and
music. Recently the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England selected her as
1000 Outstanding Americans.
oondancer is the Former Secretary, Rhode Island Indian Council. He holds a Ph.D. from
Columbia University, where he presented his dissertation on linguistics, and is an elected
member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is listed in 2000 Outstanding
Scientists of the 20th Century & The International Biographical Dictionary published by
International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England. He was recognized for his original
contributions to science and engineering at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode
Island, as well as his original technical contributions to Native American studies.
urrently the couple is participating in the television historical documentary, Mystic Voices:
The Story of the Pequot War (http://ourworld.cs.com/pequotwar/) to be aired in 2001.
Strong Woman sings songs and chants in their latest collaborative work, a CD Nkas-I
Come from Hera compilation of music sung entirely in the lost dialects of the
Massachusett, Narragansett and Pequot languages
r. O'Brien and Julianne Jennings' work has been funded and supported by many
organizations at the local, State, Federal and International levels. A partial listing includes
ashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, the Rhode Island Indian Council, Eastern Pequot
Tribal Nation, Aquidneck Indian Council, Dighton Inter-tribal Indian Council, The
United States Department of Defense, The United States Department of the Interior,
Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities (National Endowment for the Humanities),
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (National Endowment for the Arts), Rhode Island
Foundation, Expansion Arts, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology (Brown University),
Harvard University, The Rhode Island State Historical Society, Rhode Island School of
Design, Annawan Historical Society, Rehoboth Antiquarian Society, Kiwanis Club of
Newport, The Wandering Bull, Inc. of Attleboro, MA, Frank's Trading Post of Stonington,
CT, individual donors, and many others too numerous to list.
hispering Wind (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2000) recently featured the couple's work on
language revival.

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PART I: DICTIONARY OF VERBS

PART II: DICTIONARY OF NOUNS, ADJECTIVES &C

GRAMMAR TABLE of Verb Forms by Type, 114

see row canoe

chemosh, chemeck, U, 108

The fourth section of Indian Grammar Dictionary is a Grammar Table which

A Key into the Language of America , 1643

A Pronunciation Guide for

an, aum, aun

k in call, cold, cut

s-sound in cede, civil, acid

emes [word ending]

ese [word ending]

g, gg, gk [word middle after a vowel]

nn [ beginning of word as in nnin]

ne-ne in enema [two n sounds]

n, nn [middle, end of word]

q [word beginning & before vowel]

s [word beginning & after consonant]

s in sip [one s sound]

sh [before vowel & word ending]

tee-you [fast tempo] (a complex

tea, ttea [after a vowel]

tee-ah [fast tempo] (a complex

teau, teu, tteu [word middle or end]

tee-ah [fast tempo] (a complex

w in won (one w heard) [perhaps a

Roots and Stems For Verbs

182, 183, 123, 138

Compare with "musquant," p. 182

9, 70, 73, 202

Also the root for noun "water".

"Rain" is based on this root

44, 3, 70, 201, 4, 77

Agree, let us agree!

Recover ("with life

168, 134, 12, 195, 38,

Bed, keeps in bed ("he IV

144, 189, 143

TYPE A (REGULAR UNTYPED)

TYPE B (REGULAR UNTYPED)

Beg, "I pray or intreat

TYPE C (REGULAR UNTYPED)

TYPE D (REGULAR UNTYPED)

Deceive, "You deceive

TYPE E (REGULAR UNTYPED)

Ask, inquire, search

Ask too much! Do not

18, 75, 82, 83

wame kussopita nuhock

Come, who comes

Come, "you come"

3-4, 8, 70, 100

57, 38, 144, 70

164, 168, 162

Speak, "He speaks U

3-4, 8, 70, 100

142-3, 179, 174, 136