[ [90] For further information on this subject, an article may be consulted in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1st Ser., Vol. III, pp. 222, et seq., by Mr. Hugh Martin, entitled "An Account of the Principal Dies employed by the American Indians."
[ [91] The Delawares had three words for dog. One was allum, which recurs in many Algonkin dialects, and is derived by Mr. Trumbull from a root signifying "to lay hold of," or "to hold fast." The second was lennochum or lenchum, which means "the quadruped belonging to man;" lenno, man; chum, a four-footed beast. The third was moekaneu, a name derived from a general Algonkin root, in Cree, mokku, meaning "to tear in pieces," from which the Delaware word for bear, machque, has its origin, and also, significantly enough, the verb "to eat" in some dialects.
[ [92] History of West New Jersey, p. 3 (London, 1698).
[ [93] Bulletin Hist. Soc. of Penna., 1848, p. 32.
[ [94] E. M. Ruttenber, History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson River, p. 96, note.
[ [95] Maximilian, Prince of Wied, Travels in America, p. 35.
[ [96] A Key into the Language of America, p. 105.
[ [97] Documentary History of New York, Vol. III, pp. 29, 32.
[ [98] Grammar of the Language of the Lenni Lenape, pp 108-109.
[ [99] They are given, with translations, in Zeisberger's Grammar, p. 109.