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pi'-Up (pi-a, pi), large, tall. 



ti'-ai-qu-tsi, ti'du-tsi (ti-a, ti-da), small, short, etc. 



Naturally we find in plant names syllables representing or indicating 

 some particular part or feature of the plant. 



ba, bi-a, seed, fruit. 



gup, pod, seed vessel, fruit. 



o'-pi, wood. 



a'-ka, si'-a-ka, stem, shoot, etc. 



si'-gi, leaf. 



wa'-tsip, bark. 



ai'-go-gunt, thorn. 



ai'-di-wis, wi'-sa, spine, prickle. 



A few of the more frequently occurring words used in plant names 

 to indicate relations or characters other than those indicated above 

 are these : 



na'-tsu, medicine. 



I'-ca, wolf, and, secondarily, false. 



wu'-da, bear. 



pim'-go, horse. 



tai'-bo, white-man, this being frequent in names more recently devised 



to indicate forms introduced into the region since the advent of 



the whites. 



The more general terms used by the Gosiutes to indicate plant 

 groups were largely and primarily indicative of habitat, the ecological 

 relations seeming most obtrusive to their minds. Next to the ecologi- 

 cal relations, the economic seemed to have influence and we find 

 groupings based upon uses in medicine and as foods. As examples 

 of names applied to plants according to habitat may be mentioned 

 the following. 



pa'-bu-ip, applied to any plant floating upon water. From pa, water, 

 + bo(po), root, indicating position upon surface of, floating, 

 rising, etc., + -up or possibly o'-pi. 



tim'-bo-ip, applied to any plant growing upon or over rocks, etc. 

 From tvm, referring to rock as above explained, + bo, as in the 

 preceding, -f -up. ■ 



toi'-ya-da-tsip, applied to a shrub growing on mountain or in canyon. 



pan'-di-sip, applied to a plant growing submerged in water. From 

 pan, aquatic, + dl'-si-, meaning to penetrate or thrust into or 

 beneath, + -up. It is also applied to animals, such as water- 

 beetles, living beneath water. 



