[Footnote 58:  See Coll.  Me.  Hist.  Society, 2d Ser., vol. i. p. 234.]

There are two Abnaki words which are not unlike _-ka[n]tti_ in sound, one or both of which may perhaps be found in some local names:  (1) ka[oo]di, ‘where he sleeps,’ a lodging place of men or animals; and (2) ak[oo]dai[oo]i, in composition or as a prefix, ak[oo]de, ‘against the current,’ up-stream; as in ned-ak[oo]te’hemen, ’I go up stream,’ and [oo]derak[oo]da[n]na[n], ‘the fish go up stream.’  Some such synthesis may have given names to fishing-places on tidal rivers, and I am more inclined to regard the name of ‘Tracadie’ or ‘Tracody’ as a corruption of [oo]derak[oo]da[n], than to derive it (with Professor Dawson[59] and the Rev. Mr. Rand) from “Tulluk-kaddy; probably, place of residence; dwelling place,”—­or rather (for the termination requires this), where residences or dwellings are plenty,—­where there is abundance of dwelling place.  There is a Tracadie in Nova Scotia, another (Tregate, of Champlain) on the coast of New Brunswick, a Tracody or Tracady Bay in Prince Edward’s Island, and a Tracadigash Point in Chaleur Bay.

[Footnote 59:  Acadian Geology, l.c.]

Thevet, in La Cosmographie universelle,[60] gives an account of his visit in 1556, to “one of the finest rivers in the whole world which we call Norumbegue, and the aborigines Agoncy,”—­now Penobscot Bay.  In ‘Agoncy’ we have, I conjecture, another form of the Abnaki _-ka[n]tti_, and an equivalent of ‘Acadie.’

[Footnote 60:  Cited by Dr. Kohl, in Coll.  Me.  Hist.  Society, N.S., i. 416.]

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II.  Names formed from a single ground-word or substantival,—­with or without a locative or other suffix.

To this class belong some names already noticed in connection with compound names to which they are related; such as, Wachu-set, ’near the mountain;’ Menahan (Menan), Manati, Manathaan, ‘island;’ Manataan-ung, Aquedn-et, ‘on the island,’ &c.  Of the many which might be added to these, the limits of this paper permit me to mention only a few.

1.  NAIAG, ‘a corner, angle, or point.’  This is a verbal, formed from na-i, ‘it is angular,’ ‘it corners.’  Eliot wrote “yaue naiyag wetu” for the “four corners of a house,” Job i. 19.  Sometimes, nai receives, instead of the formative _-ag_, the locative affix (nai-it or nai-ut); sometimes it is used as an adjectival prefixed to auke, ‘land.’  One or another of these forms serves as the name of a great number of river and sea-coast ‘points.’  In Connecticut, we find a ‘Nayaug’ at the southern extremity of Mason’s Island in Mystic Bay, and ‘Noank’ (formerly written, Naweag, Naiwayonk, Noiank, &c.) at the west point of Mystic River’s mouth, in Groton; Noag or Noyaug, in Glastenbury, &c.  In Rhode Island, Nayatt or Nayot point in Barrington, on Providence Bay, and Nahiganset or Narragansett, ’the country about the Point.’[61] On Long Island, Nyack on Peconick Bay, Southampton,[62] and another at the west end of the Island, opposite Coney Island.  There is also a Nyack on the west side of the Tappan Sea, in New Jersey.