A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England: Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.Williams, Roger
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A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England: Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.
Williams, Roger
Narragansett Indians; Narragansett language
Obs: Which is onely in all their extremities a little boild water,
without the addition of crum or drop of other comfort: O Englands
mercies, &c.
Tahaspunâyi? What ayles he?
Tocketúspanem? What aile you?
Tocketuspunnaúmaqûn? What hurt hath he done to you?
Chassaqunsin? How long hath he been sick?
Nnanowweteem, I am going to visit.
Obs: This is all their refreshing, the Visit of Friends, and
Neighbours, a poore empty visit and presence, and yet indeed this
is very solemne, unlesse it be in infectious diseases, and then all
forsake them and flie, that I have often seene a poore House left
alone in the wild Woods, all being fled, the living not able to bury
the dead, so terrible is the apprehension of an infectious disease,
that not onely persons, but the Houses and the whole Towne takes
flight.
Nummòckquese, I have a swelling.
Mocquêsui, He is swelled.
Wàmewuhòck Mockquêsui, All his body is swelled.
Mamaskishaûi, He hath the Pox.
Mamaskishaûonck, The Pox.
Mamaskishaûmitch, The last pox.
Wesauashaûi, He hath the plague.
Wesauashaûonck, The plague.
Wesauashaûmitch, The great plague.
Obs: Were it not that they live in sweet Aire, and remove persons and
Houses from the infected, in ordinary course of subordinate Causes,
would few or any be left alive, and surviving.
Nmunnádtommin, I vomit.
Nqúnnuckquus, I am lame.
Ncúpsa, I am deafe.
Npóckunnum, I am blind.
Npockquanámmen, My disease is I know not what.
Pésuponck, An Hot-house.
Npesuppaûmen, I goe to sweate.
Pesuppaûog, They are sweating.
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