Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-01-08
ETYMoLoGIEs.
FOR THE NATIONAL 1srrLIIeEscrn.

ETYMOLOGIES.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENcER.
Messrs EpIroRs have recently fallen upon some eymol-
oges not found in any of dictionaries which may
my ielloweaders Of the National Inegence who
dwell along the ancient Pawtowomeake and therefore send
them you Perchance you may have space for them
fore the month Of Documents shall engross YOU The autho
rites cite found in .sThe True Travels Adventures
and Observations of Captaine IoHN SMITH, Europe ASIA
Afrcke, and America beginning about the yere 1893 and
continued to this present year 1922 The author
ing such things which naturally in Virginia and how
they them" PIP. l2l-l27.
Chncopa."T They have small fruit, growing on little
trees, huked like chestnut but the fruit most like very
small acorn. This they call Chtchinguamens."
fruit like medars they call Putchanens
they upon hurdles mat and preserve them punes
Words in the Powhatan, denotng fruits, whether nuts
berries grapes, had their termination in aens and word
of nearly equal sound must have been used by the Wen
illinois, Charlevoix Tin 72l) describes the same fruit
under the of Piakemnes Pla9uenines. So from
the root the English have Persmmon and the French
have Paquemnes. The latter conferred on of
the bayous Of the Mississippi and the boamen have moulded
il to Pluek-em IN.
Hickory" When they need Walnuts, they breake them
betweene two stones yet part of the shells will ceave
the fruit Then doe they dry them agane upon mat
hurdle After they put it into morter of wood and beat
very small that done, they mkt il with water that the
shells might sink the boome. This will be coloured
mike, which they call Pa,ccohiccoa and keep it for
their use"
Tockawhoughe.---Now that is Tuckahoe but do not
know exactly how it Here is the extract The
cheie they have for food is called Tockaoughe 1t
groweth like agge in marshes In one day Salvage will
gather suicentor weeke These roots much of the
greanesse and taste Of Potatoes They great
many of them with oke leaves and ene, and then all
with earth in the manner Of coept it, each side
they continue great FIRE twenty four hours before they dare
eat it, Raw it is no better than poyson, and being rosted
except be tender and the heat abaed sliced and dryed
in the sunne, mixed with sorre and meae such like will
pcke and the throat exeamely and yet sommer
they this ordinarily for bead These longer
used in Tockahoe, but the characteristic abdes for the
people thereabout edo prcc and the throat
treamey with herring bones"
ArougheHn.-This is puzzle until you read the following
extract There is beast they call roughcu much like
badger but useth to live squirrels Doe" The
sound of this spelling in the days Of Captain Smith would be
Anok-koon. The first syllable is doppednow and the
becomes Raccoon The second syllable is going fast and
when the name gets to be simply Coon, the devave will
not be so obvious to future scrutiny.
Pons and Honiny-Noah Webser's dictionary does not
contain the wod Pone, but if it did should doubt
less find il derived from the French PAIN the Spanish
pan, perhaps from Sanscrit root But find both
Pone and Ho0iny in the following passage Their
they rost in the greene and bruising il in
Of wood with pol lap in rowles in the leaves Of their
corne, and boe il for dainte. Perhaps that is worth
trying yet In winter they being boyed with beanes
for dish, they call Pausaropena. Their old wheat
they first seepe night in hot water in the morning pounding
in morter. They a small basket for their temmes
amms then pound again the great and separating by
dashng their hand in the basket receive the flower in platter
made Of wood scPed TO that orme with burning and shells
Tempering this flower with water they make either in
cakes covering them with ashes ill they be baked and then
washing them in fae water, they Dire presently with their
heat else boyle them water eating the broth with
the bread which they call Pouap The groues and peeces
the remaining BY tanning in platter in the wind
away the banne they boil three or four houes with water
which is ordinary food they call Usta.fa ham en-
Port ToJacco,-on Smiths map, made in 1908, find
town on bay Of the Potomac called PotapGoa. At what
to be the place modern maps stands the
Of Port Tobacco l. not the latter transmutaon Of
the old Indian name Poapoca? Cuouschanges Of like kind
have happened elsewhere. On the Mississippi Q wish we
could spell this Micsep, Charevox does there
place known to the old keebos men the Bob Ruy Bottom
At future day II will doubtless be thought that the
given to pepetuate the memory Of registering
member Of the Mike Fink tribe. You will see in il the
Boatmans dialect for Bots Brue name which had been
conferred the spot BY their Canadian predecessors
oCCoQUAN.
URBASa, 0HTo NOVEMBER %, Is47.