employs hiléni (abbreviated léni) for "real," "genuine," and the same term is in use for "man" and "Indian." Hilen-akuí or hilen'-áku signifies "bow," "war bow," anciently made of iron-wood and hickory; this compound means "real wood," for in Shawnee "bow" and "wood" are expressed by the same generic noun, áku, inseparable from the noun that qualifies it. In the same manner the heavy arrow or war arrow was named hilen' alwí, abbreviated len' alwí, lenalúi, literally "genuine or true arrow," to distinguish it from the hunting arrow, bird arrow, or toy arrow. The "red man's tobacco" the Shawnee call hiléni lthä′ma or hiléni ilathä′ma; it is a mixture of badger willow bark with the leaves of Uva ursi, etc., and, as "genuine," must be kept distinct from the white man's tobacco. The Indian or "true" pumpkin, hiléni wapikwi′, was a plant of miraculous origin, for it was supposed to grow only where lightning had penetrated the earth.
Delaware.—Of the Delaware dialects the Unámi or Wonámi is accessible to us through two copious but not quite satisfactory dictionaries, from which we learn that lenno (plural lennowak) is "man," "male," "Indian," and lenni, "genuine," "pure," "real," "original." Lenápe, Lenāpi, is an Indian of pure race, and lénni Lenápe, as an augmentative of the above, is the "Indian of pure descent," unaltered from his ancestors in blood or body, in sentiment or customs.[1] The Delawares applied this name formerly to themselves, for the people of every tribe believe themselves to be superior to every other. Their neighbors, the Shawnee, now call them Lenapégi. A certain species of fish, the "chop fish," is called lenn-ámek, "true fish," in the Unámi dialect; and lennaha-wanink means "at the right hand," " to the right."
Nipissing.—In the Nipissing dialect of Ojibwe, spoken on upper Ottawa river and at Oka, or the mission of the Lake of Two Mountains, there are quite a number of instances which
- ↑ The term -ape, -api, "standing," "erect," is an inseparable suffixed noun which occurs in all eastern Algonquian languages with the signification of "person," "man," "Indian."
