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250 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
each, an and inan. nuhnoh, each, every,
eagle, trompsiknk, u'omsikiil; wom]m,isikmk
(wompissacuk, pi. -]rquduog,'R.'W .;
woinpsnkook, C. ) [^irompi - psuk, white
great bird]. The name is more appro-
priately given to the fishhawk or
osprey (Pandion halifetus) than to the
bald eagle (Halisetns leucocephalus),
but was possibly applied to both birds
by the Indians of the coast,
ear, inilitdnorj, pi. -^ quash; nehtauoff, my
ear; kehtnnng, thy ear; wehtauog, his
eB,r(v)utt6uwog,^\. -j-quaxh, R. W.; Peq.
kuttuwavnege, (your) 'ear, or what
you hear by', Stiles.) From vah-
tenv, he knows, understands, perceives
(?('(f ?co, C ; ) suppos. particip. vvihtennk,
knowing, with termination marking
inan. agent, and m' indefinite prefixed.
Cf. Or. afsiv (aim), to feel, to perceive,
to hear; Lat. audire; Fr. entendre, to
hear, to understand.
early, iiompodeu, vomjini'if, early (next)
morning. See day.
earn, tummuhhfmwi onkquatunk, he earns
(and obtains) wages;. suppos. iioh iam-
hmiiidt, he who earns (it).
earring, sogkunmhou, pi. -j-yuish.
earth, ohke {afike. E. W.; ohke, C), the
earth, land, place, country (Ahn. ki,
'terre', Rasles; Gr. yyj; Lat. terra).
The primary meaning appears to be
'that which produces or brings forth',
corresponding to the an. ohkas l=(ihke-
Odas}, the bringer forth, the mother.
nunahpd, nunohpe, earth, dry land (as
distinguished from water) . See dry.
earthquake, qveqvan (there is a shaking
or trembling), a shaking; pi. qiieqiian-
ash : olike inikkeemo koh qiieqnan, 'the
earth shook and trembled', Ps. 18, 7.
east, inHchepv.'6iyeu, imitchepiroayeii, eastward,
on or to the east; iimtehe wutchep-
ii'oii/eti, from the east; irutchejivosh ( umt-
chepwoshe udttin, C), the east wind.
For toutehepwoijfeu the Massachusetts
Psalter substitutes vompanniyeii, and
Roger Williams has Wompanavd, 'the
Eastern Ood' (i. e. god of the dawn or
mornnig light), but iiopdiiii. the east
E
east—continued.
wind, and rliepenrmn { = inil-riiepjir(ish
of Eliot), the northeast wind (p. 83)
liftit-chepioh-ijeit, belonging to Chejty,
or the bad spirit, to whom the northeast
region appears to liave been
appropriated, as the west or northwest
was to Chfkesiw;and or Kisukqnaml
and the southwest to Kaufi'inlo>rit or
the good god], immpannii/en (where
the daylight is) appears to have been
the more generally received word for
'east' or 'to the east'. Its radical,
wompan, irdpi (white, light, bright, of
the dawn) , enters into the composition
of the names of places and people, as
Abenaki. ( ]Vapanachki) and Wampan-
nag.i ( Wampan-ohke) . See north.
easy, 7iikk&mme {nickuminat, R. AV.; nikknmme,
nukkumme, ?mH*rt/no/, C), it is
easy, not difficult or hard; suppos.
nirkihnmat, when it is easy.
eat, meetsti, he eats (v. i. ), he takes
food; infin. metsinate, meetsimieate {vtetesimmhi,
'R. W. ; Del., mitzin Hkw.),
to eat; meet/fish, eat thon; meetfiHog, they
eat (ascAmetedmmis [=n,