Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 3
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] mountain." In some cases the locative takes the verbal form indicating place or country, Williams wrote "_Sachimauónck,_ a Kingdom or Monarchy." Dr. Schoolcraft wrote: "From _Ojibwai_ (Chippeway) is formed _Ojib-wain-ong,_ 'Place of the Chippeways;' _Monominikaun-ing,_ 'In the place of wild rice,'" Dr. Brinton wrote "_Walum-ink,_ 'The place of paint.'" The letter _s,_ preceding the locative, changes the meaning of the latter to near, or something less than at or on. The suffixes _-is, -it, -os, -es_ mean "Small," as in _Ménates_ or _Ménatit,_ "Small island." The locative affix cannot be applied to an animal in the sense of at, in, on, to. There are many formative inflections and suffixes indicating the plural, etc. Mohawk or Iroquoian names, while polysynthetic, differ from Algonquian in construction.