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INDEX OF INDIAN WORDS

• accowprets: shears, I, 137, II, 130
• annatto: a dye tree, III, 232–233
• aroughcun: a beast like a badger but living on
  trees, I, 154, II, 110, 419. See also
  rahaughcum
• ascopo: tree like sweet bay, II, 78
• assapanick: a flying squirrel, I, 154–155, II,
  110
• assentamens: pease, I, 157, II, 112
• attasskuss: leaves, weeds, or grass, I, 137, II,
  130
• attawp: a bow, I, 136, II, 130
• attonce: arrows, I, 136, II, 130
• aumouhhowgh: a target, I, 137, II, 130
• capawack: harbor (?), II, 399 n. 4
• casacunnakack, peya quagh acquintan
  uttasantasough: in how many days will there
  come hither any more English ships, I, 137,
  II, 130
• case: how many, I, 138, II, 131
• cassavia: cassava, II, 77
• cattapeuk: spring, I, 156, II, 112
• caucorouse: a captain, I, 174 n. 9, II, 127
• caw-cawwassoughes: assistants to Indian
  priests, I, 146, II, 103
• chapacor: a root, II, 77
• chechinquamins: nut like a chestnut, I, 152, II,
  109
• chepsin: land, I, 137, II, 130
• chickahominy: cleared place, I, 101 n. 85
• cohattayough: summer, I, 156, II, 112
• cohouk: winter, I, 157 n. 6
• comatinchtassapooeksku: sixty, I, 138, II, 131
• comotinch: six, I, 138, II, 131
• copotone: sturgeon, I, 137, II, 130
• crenepo: a woman, I, 136, II, 130
• habamouk: god/devil, III, 280
• habascon: root vegetable, II, 77
• Hinnaim namen, hinnaim michen, matta cuts: this
  here, by and by shall see, and by and by
  eat, but not speake, II, 458 n. 4
• ka ka torawincs yowo: what call you this, I, 136,
  II, 130
• kaskeke: ten, I, 138, II, 131
• Kator nehiegh mattagh neer uttapitchewayne:
  Truely he is there I doe not lie, I, 139, II,
  131
• kekataughtassapooeksku: ninety, I, 138, II, 131
• kekatawgh: nine, I, 138, II, 131
• Kekaten pokahontas patiaquagh ningh tanks
  manotyens neer mowchick rawrenock audowgh:
  Bid Pokahontas bring hither two little
  Baskets, and I wil give her white beads to
  make her a chaine, I, 139, II, 132
• kekughes: lives, I, 139, II, 131
• kesowghs: suns, I, 138, II, 131
• kewasowok: god or gods, II, 79
• kewassa/kiwasa: god, I, 142 (fig.), II, 460, III,
  280
• Kiehtan/Kichtan: II, 460–461, III, 280
• machacomocko: great house/temple, II, 264
• Mache, nehiegh yowrowgh, orapaks: Now he
  dwels a great way hence at Orapaks, I, 139,
  II, 131
• macocks: a fruit like a melon, I, 158, II, 113
• manito/mantoac: a spirit, II, 78
• maquówoc: beast, I, 155 n. 4, II, 77
• maracocks: a fruit like a lemon, I, 153, 158, II,
  109, 113
• marowanchesso: a boy, I, 136, II, 130
• marrapough: enemies, I, 137, II, 130
• maskapow: the worst of enemies, I, 137, II, 130
• matchcoat: skins, I, 136 n. 2
• matchcores: skins or garments, I, 136, II, 130
• mattassin: copper, I, 137, II, 130
• mattoum: berry/seed, I, 153, II, 109
• mawchick chammay: the best of friends, I, 137,
  II, 130
• messamins: a grape as big as a cherry, I, 152,
  II, 109
• meworames, I, 57. See also weroance
• mockasins: shoes, I, 136, II, 130
• monacookes: swords, I, 136, II, 130

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• Mowchick woyawgh tawgh noeragh kaquere mecher:
  I am very hungrie, what shall I eate? I, 139,
  II, 131
• musquaspen: a root, red as blood, I, 154, II, 110
• mussamaneeks: a kind of squirrel, I, 161 n. 9,
  240, II, 187
• mussascus: muskrat or musquash, I, 155, II,
  110
• musses: woods/pieces of wood, I, 137, II, 130
• necut: one, I, 138, II, 130
• necuttoughtysinough: one hundred, I, 138, II,
  131
• necuttweunquaogh: one thousand, I, 138, II, 131
• nemarough: a man, I, 136, II, 130
• nepawweshowghs: moons, I, 138, II, 131
• nepinough: earing of the corn, I, 156, II, 112
• netoppew: friends, I, 137, II, 130
• ningh: two, I, 138, II, 130
• ninghsapooeksku: twenty, I, 138, II, 131
• noughmass: fish, I, 137, II, 130
• nuss: three, I, 138, II, 130
• nussapooeksku: thirty, I, 138, II, 131
• nusswash: eight, I, 138, II, 131
• nusswashtassapooeksku: eighty, I, 138, II, 131
• ocoughtanammis: berry like a caper, I, 153, II,
  109
• Okee: a god/the devil, I, 138, 169, 170, 172, II,
  122, 125, 131, 144, 460, III, 280
• osamener: a berry like an acorn, II, 77
• osawas: brass, I, 137 n. 6
• osies: heavens, I, 138, II, 131
• pamesacks: knives, I, 137, II, 130
• paniese/pinese: medicine man/councillor, II,
  451 n. 2, 461 n. 4
• pansaromanans: corn and beans boiled, I, 77,
  106 n. 191, 158
• parankestassapooeksku: fifty, I, 138, II, 131
• paranske: five, I, 138, II, 131
• pawcohiccora: walnut water, I, 152, II, 109
• pawcorances: altar stones, I, 171, II, 123
• pawcussacks: guns, I, 137, II, 130
• pawpaxsoughs: years, I, 138, II, 131
• pawpecones: pipes (musical), I, 137, 167 n. 2,
  II, 130
• pemmenaw: a grass, I, 163, II, 117, 215
• pocones: root that dyes red, I, 154, 161, 168,
  170, 171, 172, 270, II, 110, 115, 121, 122,
  124, 125, 148, 187, 221
• pokatawer: fire, I, 136, II, 130
• ponap: bread, I, 158, II, 113
• popanow: winter, I, 156, II, 112
• popogusso: afterlife/hell, II, 79
• powas: priests (?), II, 461
• pummahumps: stars, I, 138, II, 131
• pummuckoner: berry like an acorn, II, 77
• pungnough: a powder from burning the core of
  ears of corn, I, 158, II, 113
• putchamin: a fruit like a medlar, I, 152, 212, II,
  108, 109, 145
• quiyoughcosughes: gods and their affinities, I,
  139, 172, II, 125, 131, 144, 146, III, 317
• quiyoughquosicke: an idol, I, 59, III, 237 n. 6
• qunnoune: a sachem or chief, II, 451 n. 1
• rahaughcums/raugroughcuns: racoons, I, 53, 61,
  103 n. 124. See also aroughcun
• rakeock: a tree, II, 78
• rassaweake: king's house, I, 165 n. 1
• rawcomens: fruit like a gooseberry, I, 152, II,
  109
• rawcosowghs: days, I, 138, II, 131
• rawranoke: white beads, II, 108, 168, 249
• righcomoughes: deaths, I, 139, II, 131
• sachem: a chief, I, 329 n. 5, II, 461, III, 280
• sachimo comaco: sachem's house, II, 456 n. 7
• sagamore/sagamo: a chief, I, 329 n. 5, III, 279,
  280
• sagatamenor: a berry like an acorn, II, 77
• sapúmmener: a nut or berry, I, 152 n. 6
• saquenuckot: a beast like a rabbit, I, 155 n. 4,
  II, 77
• sawwehone: blood, I, 137, II, 130
• secanauk: king crab, II, 78
• sequenummener: a berry like capers, II, 77
• shacquohocan: a stone, I, 137, II, 130
• Spaughtynere keragh werowance mawmarinough
  kekaten wawgh peyaquaugh: Run you then to
  the king mawmarynough and bid him
  come hither, I, 139, II, 131
• suckahanna: water, I, 137, II, 130
• tangomockomindge: bark of a tree, II, 77
• Tantum: Indian god, II, 428 n. 4, 441, 461,
  III, 280
• taquitock: harvest and autumn, I, 156, II, 112
• Tawnor nehiegh Powhatan: Where dwells
  Powhatan? I, 139, II, 131

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• tockahacks: pickaxes, I, 137, 163 n. 1, II, 130
• tockawhoughe: a root used for food, I, 153–154,
  162, II, 109–110, 116, 213. See also
  tockwough
• tockwough: a berry, I, 263
• tomahacks: axes, I, 137, II, 130
• toppawass: seven, I, 138, II, 131
• toppawousstassapooeksku: seventy, I, 138
• toppquough: nights, I, 138, II, 131
• tussan: beds, I, 136, 162 n. 3, II, 130
• uetchunquoyes: wild cat, I, 155 n. 5
• ussawassin: iron, brass, silver, or white metal,
  I, 137, II, 130
• ustatahamen: a kind of porridge, I, 158, II, 113
• utchanquores: a beast like a wild cat, II, 111
• Uttapitchewayne anpechitchs nehawper
  werowacomoco: You lie, he staide ever at
  Werowocomoco, I, 139, II, 131
• uttasantasough: offered service, II, 246 n. 1
• Utteke, e peya weyack wighwhip: Get you gone,
  and come again quickly, I, 139, II, 132
• vetchunquoyes: a wild cat, I, 155
• wapeih: medicinal clay, II, 76
• wasebur: a herb, II, 77
• wassador: copper, II, 72
• weghshaughes: flesh, I, 137, II, 130
• wepenter: a cuckold, I, 137, II, 130
• weroance/werowance: king/governor/captain, I,
  57, 102 n. 100, 104 n. 135, II, 103, 119, 120,
  III, 280; defined, II, 127
• werowocomoco: chief's house, II, 456 n. 7
• wighsacon: juice of a root for purging, I, 154,
  168, II, 110, 121, 124 n. 2
• winauk: sassafras, I, 153 n. 9
• yehawkans: houses, I, 136, II, 130
• yowgh: four, I, 138, II, 131
• yowghapooeksku: forty, I, 138, II, 131