History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 201
[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 move in space; bwa^ a voice. The theory of its orthography is to employ these primary sounds in combination, and not as disjunctive elements, which has originated a plan of thought and concords quite pe culiar. It is evident that such particles as ak, be, ge, were in vested with generic meanings before they assumed their concrete forms of ak-e, earth; ne-be, water; ge-zis^ sky. Without attention to this theory of radices, and to the word-building principle of the language, — to this constant capacity of incremental extension, and to the mode of doubling, triplicat ing, and quadruplicating ideas, it is impossible to analyze it —