Arrow;' the _Potopaco_ of John Smith's map (_p[oo]tuppâg_, a bay or
cove; Eliot,) on a bend of the Potomac, is naturalized as 'Port
Tobacco.' _Nama'auke_, 'the place of fish' in East Windsor, passes
through _Namerack_ and _Namalake_ to the modern 'May Luck.'
_Moskitu-auke_, 'grass land,' in Scituate, R.I., gives the name of
'Mosquito Hawk' to the brook which crosses it.[92]

[Footnote 89: Whitney's Language and the Study of Language, p.
69.--"Ein natürliches Volksgefühl, oft auch der Volkswitz, den nicht
mehr verstandenen Namen neu umprägte und mit anderen lebenden Wörtern
in Verbindung setzte." Dr. J. Bender, _Die deutschen Ortsnamen_ (2te
Ausg.) p. 2.]

[Footnote 90: Haldeman's Analytic Orthography, §279, and "Etymology as
a means of Education," in Pennsylvania School Journal for October,
1868.]

[Footnote 91: "Swatawro," on Sayer and Bennett's Map, 1775.]

[Footnote 92: "Whiskey Jack," the name by which the Canada Jay
(Perisoreus Canadensis) is best known to the lumbermen and hunters of
Maine and Canada, is the Montagnais _Ouishcatcha[n]_ (Cree,
_Ouiskeshauneesh_), which has passed perhaps through the transitional
forms of 'Ouiske Jean' and 'Whiskey Johnny.' The Shagbark Hickory
nuts, in the dialect of the Abnakis called _s'k[oo]skada´mennar_,
literally, 'nuts to be cracked with the teeth,' are the
'Kuskatominies' and 'Kisky Thomas' nuts of descendants of the Dutch
colonists of New Jersey and New York. A contraction of the _plural_
form of a Massachusetts noun-generic,--_asquash_, denoting 'things
which are eaten green, or without cooking,' was adopted as the name of