Tûnuppasuonk

 

toyupáhs Noun Animate turtle          toyupáhsak turtles 

toyupáhsuk on the turtle 

"Awáyáhsak yok. Noy’hc, toyupáhs, skôks, wôpsuq, tá muks:" These are animals. Deer, turtle, skunk, eagle, and wolf.

https://www.moheganlanguage.org/2017/05/01/hvo24341/

Natick dictionary / by James Hammond Trumbull:

toonuppasog, n. the tortoise, Lev. 11, 29.

[Abn. t&rebé; pl. -bak, tortue. 

Del. toolpe [tºlpe, Hkw.]; 

tılpa, turpa, Campanius (unde deriv. terrapin);

 tulpe, a water or sea turtle, Zeisb.]

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha002494437

tunuppasog “near water”; Wampanoag clan animal

[40: Trumbull seems to suggest this is animate, singular, but suffix –og suggests plural animate form.]

snapping or sea turtle:  toroupe

Dr. Frank Waabu O'Brien, Aquidneck Indian Council

http://www.bigorrin.org/waabu5.htm