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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
| Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) | 50 | 5,568 | Original → |
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Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] he had simply failed to note the inflections which constituted an important principle of the language. But notwithstanding the publication of Eliot's grammar in 1666, and the observations of the Jesuit and Moravian p…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Edwards says that the Mabi-can was spoken u by all the Indians throughout New England; " that though each tribe had " a different dialect," the language was " radically the same." Yet the Algonquin of the Mablcans wa…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] 336 HUDSON RIPER INDIANS. to the Mahikan; only the former generally place the accent upon the last syllable. The Ottawa is nearly related to the Shawanose, but the Chippewa more immediately to the Delaware. The langu…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Mahican has been preserved, partially at least, as has also to some extent the Long Island, — the latter extending along the east side of the river as far as the Highlands, where it met the Wappanoos, which has b…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Earth, in Long Island, is keagb; in Massachusetts, abke; in Mahican, akek; in Minsi, acbgi; in Delaware, aki, akbki. But while the peculiar dialects of the valley have been lost, or have at best an imperfect preserva…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The object in view has been attained by various means of the same tendency and often blended together : a multitude of inflections properly so called; a still greater num ber of compound words, sometimes formed by th…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] or whose curiosity prompts them to the study, will consult the original. Grammar of the Algonquin Language. I. Alphabet. The Algonquin possesses all the vowel sounds as heard in far, fate, fall; met, meet; shine, pin…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] APPENDIX. 341 whether living or dead; but neck, back, heart, windpipe, take the inanimate form. In like manner eagle, swan, dove, are distinguished as animates; but beak, wing, tail, are arranged with inanimates. So …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] inflections which the pronouns take for tense, or rather, the auxiliary verbs, have, had, shall, will, may, etc. This class embraces the preformative or prefixed pronouns. The inseparable suffixed or subformative pro…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] sounds. If we compare this principle to a thread, parts of which are white, black, green, blue and yellow, the white may stand as the symbol of five vowelic classes of words in a, the 350 HUDSON RIPER INDIANS. black …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] n. 6 or on.. ii or iin CLASS OF CONJUGATIONS.. in class a in class a 6. Radices. The Algonquin language is founded on roots or primary elements having a meaning by themselves. As waub, to see; paup, to laugh; wa, to …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] gluten is precisely that to which the closest attention is required to trace its syntax. 7. Word-Building. The accretive system upon which the language is based is most clearly illustrated by analysis. Waub is, appar…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] O gin e bug o qua,.... Woman of the rose. O bub bau mwa wa ge zbig o qua, Woman of the murmuring of the skies. The formation of geographical names is no exception to the rule. Wombi, in the Natick, or Massachusetts d…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] e., " Bright stream flowing through rocks." While it is perhaps impossible to translate many of the local and geographi cal names which are found in the valley of the Hudson, from the fact that the language was a mix…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] given by Mr. Eliot, the negative form of elementary words is matt a; the local inflection ett; the adjective great, missi; black, moot; white, wompi. 45 356 HUDSON RIVER INDUNS. * " The Indian languages also contain …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Thus, in the Algonquin, the syllable ac stands for land, earth, ground, soil; be, for water, liquid; bic, for rock, stone, metal, hard mineral; co for object; ke for country, precinct, or terri tory; os for pebble, l…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] by these elisions and transpositions, the number of syllables of which a new class of words shall consist, is a question to be predetermined. Expletive consonants, harsh gutturals, and double inflections, the pests o…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Long Island, as already stated, was called Sewanbackey. Among the localities, Occopoque (Riverhead), takes its name from accup, a creek. The Indian village of Accopogue was situ ated on the creek which enters Little …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] paid reverence as an evidence of the permanency and immuta bility of their deity. * No Indian name more frequently occurs in the history of the county than that of Weckquaesgeek, nor one the precise location of which…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Indian name for Tarrytown was Alipconck, " the place of elms." Sing-Sing takes its name from an Indian village called Ossing-sing, from ossin, a stone, and ing, a place, the " place of stones," or " stone upon st…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] (O' Callaghan.) Bolton says the name signifies "a run between two hills." The Dutch styled it " Sleepy Haven kil," hence the origin of the present term Sleepy Hollow applied to the valley. Sacrabung^ or mill river, t…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Byram river was known by the name of Armonck, and the meadowy bordering it Haseco and Miosekassaky. Harlem river was called
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In the town of Carmel, in the county of Putnam, is located Lake Macookpack, now Mahopack^ a term probably signifying simply a large inland lake, from ma large water and aki land. The same name was applied to what is …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Highlands of the Hudson were not called Matteawan mountains, as stated by Moulton. The Indians had no names for mountain ranges, but designated different parts or peaks by different names. In the patent known as …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] This interpretation applied to the creek, would be-uno water " or " little water or motion." Another classification would be ma, large water; tea, valley or land scape; wan, inanimate motion — literally cc the large …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] It is said that at Fishkill hook remains of an Indian burial ground have been found, and also that apple trees planted by them were still bearing within the
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the Sackett tract ran north-east to a tree on the east side of the Wesiack subsequently known as Ten Mile river. Of the Indian name, O'Callaghan says : " Wissayck, rocky country," from qussuk, a rock, and ick, a loca…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] devil worship was similarly observed. There is a fragrance in the fact that makes the name more palatable than most of the Dutch 'geographical terms. Scbodac^ to which tradition assigns the important position of the …
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] APPENDIX. 377 name of the falls — a word signifying to sink, to be forced down under weight by water. Watchtung — literally mountain — was the name of a range of hills lying some twelve miles west of the Hudson; Rams…
Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Opposite Anthony's Nose, was a " small rivulet called by ye Indians Assinnapink" or ct the stream from the solid rocks." South of this rivulet was Tongapogb kil, and north of it Pooploop's kil, the latter apparently …