The Sháwano call a Creek person Humásko, the Creek people Humaskógi. Here the hu- is the predicative prefix: _he is, she is, they are,_ and appears often as ho-, hui-, ku-. Thus Humaskógi means "_they are Masko_", the suffix -gi, -ki being the plural ending of the animate order of substantives in Sháwano. A word masko is not traceable at present in that language, but muskiégui means _lake, pond_, m'skiegu-pki or muskiégu-pki _timbered swamp_, musk'hánui nepí _the water_ (nepí) _rises up to, surrounds_, but does not cover up. Miskekopke in Caleb Atwater's vocabulary (Archæol. Americ. I, p. 290), signifies _wet ground, swamp_. Rev. Lacombe's Cree or Knisteno Dictionary gives: maskek _marsh, swamp, trembling ground_ unsafe to walk upon; Maskekowiyiniw _the Maskegons_ or _Bogmen_, a tribe of Crees, also called Maskekowok, who were formerly Odshibwē Indians, but left Lake Superior to join the Crees; their name forms a striking parallel to our southern Maskoki. Rev. Watkins' Cree Dictionary, with its English, unscientific orthography, has muskāg, muskāk _swamp, marsh_; Muskāgoo _Swampy Indian, Maskegon_; Muskāgoowew _he is a Swampy Indian_. Here the predicative suffix -wew is placed after the noun, while hu- of Sháwano stands before it. The Odshibwē Dictionary of Bishop Baraga has máshkig, plur. máskigon _swamp, marsh_; Mashki sibi _Bad River_; a corrupt form standing for Mashkigi sibi _Swamp River_. In Abnáki we have meguä'k _fresh water marsh_, maskehegat _fetid water_.