here given.

28. _Jadakweniyu_. This word, usually rendered "ruler," appears to
mean "principal person," or perhaps originally a "very powerful person."
It is a compound word, formed apparently from _oyata_, body or
person, _kakwennion_, to be able, and the adjective termination
_iyu_ or _iyo_, in its original sense of "great." (See
Appendix, Note B.) M. Cuoq, in his Iroquois Lexicon, defines the verb
_kiatakwenniyo_ as meaning "to be the important personage, the
first, the principal, the president." It corresponds very nearly to the
Latin _princeps_, and, as applied in the following litany to the
fifty great hereditary chiefs of the Iroquois, might fairly enough be
rendered "prince."

_Kanonghsyonny_, in modern orthography, _Kanonsionni_. For the
origin and meaning of this word, and an explanation of the following
section, see the Introduction, p. 75.

_Yejodenaghstahhere kanaghsdajikowah_, lit., "they added
frame-poles to the great framework." Each of these compounds comprises
the word _kanaghsta_, which is spelt by Bruyas, _gannasta_,
and defined by him, "poles for making a cabin,--the inner one, which is
bent to form the frame of a cabin." The reference in these words is to
the Tuscaroras, Tuteloes, Nanticokes, and other tribes, who were
admitted into the confederacy after its first formation. From a
manuscript book, written in the Onondaga dialect, which I found at
"Onondaga Castle," in September, 1880, I copied a list of the fifty
councillors, which closed with the words, "_shotinastasonta
kanastajikona Ontaskaeken_"--literally, "they added a frame-pole to
the great framework, the Tuscarora nation."