The Song of Hiawatha: Vocabulary

Vocabulary

• Adjidau'mo, the red squirrel
• Ahdeek', the reindeer
• Ahmeek', the beaver
• Annemee'kee, the thunder
• Apuk'wa. a bulrush
• Baim-wa'wa, the sound of the thunder
• Bemah'gut, the grape-vine
• Chemaun', a birch canoe
• Chetowaik', the plover
• Chibia'bos, a musician; friend of Hiawatha; ruler of the Land of
• Spirits
• Dahin'da, the bull frog
• Dush-kwo-ne'-she or Kwo-ne'-she, the dragon fly
• Esa, shame upon you
• Ewa-yea', lullaby
• Gitche Gu'mee, The Big-Sea-Water, Lake Superior
• Gitche Man'ito, the Great Spirit, the Master of Life
• Gushkewau', the darkness
• Hiawa'tha, the Prophet. the Teacher, son of Mudjekeewis, the
• West-Wind and Wenonah, daughter of Nokomis
• Ia'goo, a great boaster and story-teller
• Inin'ewug, men, or pawns in the Game of the Bowl
• Ishkoodah', fire, a comet
• Jee'bi, a ghost, a spirit
• Joss'akeed, a prophet
• Kabibonok'ka, the North-Wind
• Ka'go, do not
• Kahgahgee', the raven
• Kaw, no
• Kaween', no indeed
• Kayoshk', the sea-gull
• Kee'go, a fish
• Keeway'din, the Northwest wind, the Home-wind
• Kena'beek, a serpent
• Keneu', the great war-eagle
• Keno'zha, the pickerel
• Ko'ko-ko'ho, the owl
• Kuntasoo', the Game of Plumstones
• Kwa'sind, the Strong Man
• Kwo-ne'-she, or Dush-kwo-ne'-she, the dragon-fly
• Mahnahbe'zee, the swan
• Mahng, the loon
• Mahnomo'nee, wild rice
• Ma'ma, the woodpecker
• Me'da, a medicine-man
• Meenah'ga, the blueberry
• Megissog'won, the great Pearl-Feather, a magician, and the Manito
• of Wealth
• Meshinau'wa, a pipe-bearer
• Minjekah'wun, Hiawatha's mittens
• Minneha'ha, Laughing Water; wife of Hiawatha; a water-fall in a
• stream running into the Mississippi between Fort Snelling and the
• Falls of St. Anthony
• Minne-wa'wa, a pleasant sound, as of the wind in the trees
• Mishe-Mo'kwa, the Great Bear
• Mishe-Nah'ma, the Great Sturgeon
• Miskodeed', the Spring-Beauty, the Claytonia Virginica
• Monda'min, Indian corn
• Moon of Bright Nights, April
• Moon of Leaves, May
• Moon of Strawberries, June
• Moon of the Falling Leaves, September
• Moon of Snow-shoes, November
• Mudjekee'wis, the West-Wind; father of Hiawatha
• Mudway-aush'ka, sound of waves on a shore
• Mushkoda'sa, the grouse
• Nah'ma, the sturgeon
• Nah'ma-wusk, spearmint
• Na'gow Wudj'oo, the Sand Dunes of Lake Superior
• Nee-ba-naw'-baigs, water-spirits
• Nenemoo'sha, sweetheart
• Nepah'win, sleep
• Noko'mis, a grandmother, mother of Wenonah
• No'sa, my father
• Nush'ka, look! look!
• Odah'min, the strawberry
• Okahha'wis, the fresh-water herring
• Ome'mee, the pigeon
• Ona'gon, a bowl
• Opechee', the robin
• Osse'o, Son of the Evening Star
• Owais'sa, the blue-bird
• Oweenee', wife of Osseo
• Ozawa'beek, a round piece of brass or copper in the Game of the
• Bowl
• Pah-puk-kee'na, the grasshopper
• Pau'guk, death
• Pau-Puk-Kee'wis, the handsome Yenadizze, the son of Storm Fool
• Pe'boan, Winter
• Pem'ican, meat of the deer or buffalo dried and pounded
• Pezhekee', the bison
• Pishnekuh', the brant
• Pone'mah, hereafter
• Puggawau'gun, a war-club
• Puk-Wudj'ies, little wild men of the woods; pygmies
• Sah-sah-je'wun, rapids
• Segwun', Spring
• Sha'da, the pelican
• Shahbo'min, the gooseberry
• Shah-shah, long ago
• Shaugoda'ya, a coward
• Shawgashee', the craw-fish
• Shawonda'see, the South-Wind
• Shaw-shaw, the swallow
• Shesh'ebwug, ducks; pieces in the Game of the Bowl
• Shin'gebis, the diver, or grebe
• Showain'neme'shin, pity me
• Shuh-shuh-gah', the blue heron
• Soan-ge-ta'ha, strong-hearted
• Subbeka'she, the spider
• Sugge'me, the mosquito
• To'tem, family coat-of-arms
• Ugh, yes
• Ugudwash', the sun-fish
• Unktahee', the God of Water
• Wabas'so, the rabbit, the North
• Wabe'no, a magician, a juggler
• Wabe'no-wusk, yarrow
• Wa'bun, the East-Wind
• Wa'bun An'nung, the Star of the East, the Morning Star
• Wahono'win, a cry of lamentation
• Wah-wah-tay'see, the fire-fly
• Waubewy'on, a white skin wrapper
• Wa'wa, the wild goose
• Waw-be-wa'wa, the white goose
• Wawonais'sa, the whippoorwill
• Way-muk-kwa'na, the caterpillar
• Weno'nah, the eldest daughter; Hiawatha's mother, daughter of
• Nokomis
• Yenadiz'ze, an idler and gambler; an Indian dandy

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