_Pushkoosh_ signifies an infant, _Neetta_ a bear, _Nassooba_ a wolf, &c.——By joining the word _Ooshe_, to the end of the names of animals, it makes a {52} distinction; as _Nassoob-ooshe_, a wolf-cub, _Neett’-ooshe_ a bear-cub: but though the word _Oophe_ signifies a dog, as an exception to their general method of speech, they call a puppy _Ooph-ishik_, because he is so domestic, or sociable, as ישק, to kiss, or fondle. In like manner, _Pishi_ signifies milk; and _Pishik_ a woman’s breast, or the udder of any animal; as the young ones, by kissing, or sucking, shade the breast, פי, with their mouth, and thereby receive their nourishment. With the Hebrews,עפך (_Oophecha_) signifies active, or restless: which, according to the Indian idiom, expresses the quality of a dog; _Oophe_ is therefore the name of this animal, and their period denotes a similarity, according to the usage of the Hebrews. _Shale_ and _Shatèra_, signify to carry, _Shapore_, a load. The former word consists of _Sheth_ and _Ale_. _Illeh_ imports dead, and _Kaneha_ lost. They say _Shat Kaneha_, to carry a thing quite away, or to Canaan.—Likewise, _Illeht Kaneha_, literally, dead, and lost, or probably, gone to Canaan. Several old Indian American towns are called _Kanāai_; and it hath been a prevailing notion with many Jews, that when any of their people died in a strange land, they passed through the caverns of the earth, till they arrived at Canaan, their attractive centre. And the word _Oobèa_, likewise imports dead, or cut off by O E A, or _Yohewah_; for they firmly believe, as before hinted, they cannot outlive the time the Deity has prescribed them. They likewise say, _Hasse Ookklīlle Cheele_, “the sun is, or has been, caused to die in the water,” _i. e._ sun-set. When they would say, “Do not obscure, or darken me,” they cry _Ish-ookkīlle Chīnna_, verbatim, “Do not occasion _Ish_, me, to become like the sun, dead in the water.” They call the new moon, _Hasse Awáhta_, “the moon is called upon to appear by Yohewah:” which plainly shews, that they believe the periodical revolutions of the moon to be caused, and the sun every day to die, or be extinguished in the ocean, by the constant laws of God. When we ask them, if to-day’s sun is drowned in the western ocean, how another can rise out of the eastern ocean to-morrow? they only reply, _Pilla Yammi_, or _Yammi mung_; or such is the way of God with his people. It seems to be a plain contraction of יה and אממי _Ammi_; which was the name of Israel during the theocracy. Besides, _Aeemmi_ signifies, “I believe;” as the peculiar people believed in Yohewah. And it likewise imports, “I am the owner of, &c.”——according to the Hebrew idiom, the words and meaning nearly agree. {53}