TY - JOUR
AU - Gerard, W. R.
AB -  spreads rapidly and the man soon dies in a characteristic way which, in some communities at least, everyone knows to be the result of the obeah man's mysterious but potent charm. AUSTINH. CLARK UNITED STATES NATIONAL WASHINGTON, MUSEUM D. c. T H E ROOT KOMPAU: ITS FORMS A N D MEANING THE Natick Dictionary was evidently compiled by Dr Trumbull at a n early period of his Algonquian studies, and contains, on nearly every page, numerous errors, many of them very serious, and some of which were, as opportunity offered. corrected in subsequent writings, and especially in the able papers which he published in later years. Aniong such errors are the statements made 011 page 327 on regard to the verbal root koinpau and its meaning, referred to by Dr Michelson in the A rnerz'can ArrthropoZogist ( N . s., vol. XIII, p. 339). This element of Algoiiquiari synthesis, which would now be written ka"paw, and is a root of secondary order, does not mean 'he stands erect,' nor does it, as Trumbull intimates, coiitain the word -o?np (unp), 'man,' any more than does ahtowzp (u'tu"p), 'bow', for which the compiler, on page 104, suggests the meaning of 
TI - THE ROOT KOMPAU: ITS FORMS AND MEANING
JF - American Anthropologist
DO - 10.1525/aa.1912.14.3.02a00110
DA - 1912-07-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-root-kompau-its-forms-and-meaning-85Y3nY2xeP
SP - 574
VL - 14
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -