Note 292 — LETTER XIX. FROM THE SAME.
Reading edition
All words ending in ican, hican, kschican, denote a sharp instrument for cutting. Pachkschican, a knife; pkuschican, a gimlet, an instrument which cuts into holes; tangamican, or tangandican, a spear, a sharp-pointed instrument; poyachkican, a gun, or an instrument that cuts with force.