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podsu'shu adshi Httic a.\\ hatchet; in text "tomahawk," al- 

 though the atasa is meant 16, 35. 



pofigi our hearts 16, 34; see ifigi. 



p6has, pi. of obj. pohakas I hear, listen to; impohatis they 

 heard (its noise, im- pointing to its) 10, i ; the singular 

 may be used when tribes or bodies of people form the sub- 

 ject of the sentence, but pohakatis is preferable and stands 

 10, 3. pohagit fiiilid omis they are hearing it 16, 13 (ver- 

 bal, 3d pers. pi.) pohagidut hearing, listening to 18, 14. 



poki, pogi, piiki /ast, nlti/natc; cf. ispogi, pu/gakin. 



po';^ki noise., disturbance in the air; lit. "what is heard "; 16, 

 13; verbal of pohas. 



pomi, piimi ive^ ourselves ; p6mi-u xve too. ttr a/so; piimit 

 okis we (and ive two) say so ; pomit o'mis (for o'mi-is) zve 

 are the cause of it., xve do it. 



po'skas, puskas / am fasting; ipuskis, abbr. from i-apo'skis, 

 they fasted . said 10, 33 of women menstruating, who then 

 abstained from salt and meat ; po'skat when they fast, dur-^ 

 ing fast 10,30 (verbal); imaposkas I fast in a certain 

 intention; cf. i. 209. 



puyafiktcha, puifiktcha ghost^ sou/, spirit ; lit. "our spirit." 

 The old Creek notion is that at death the spirit goes the 

 way the sun goes, to the west, and there joins its family and 

 friends who went before it— the words of a Tukabatchi chief; 

 Hawkins' Sketch, p. 80. 



Puipa-edshi, nom. pr, of a Creek chief of the town of Apala- 

 chicola 8, 10 ; cf. paidshidshiis. 



pukabi, puk = api i) f)o/e o?i ba//-ground to throw at with balls 

 (puku). 2) po/e of any kind, flagstaff. &c. 10, 20. 23. Der. 

 piiku, api. 



piiknaka nest of bird ; also bed made by some animal, as 

 a hog. 



pu/gakin on the top of it. for c/osing up; adverb serving 

 as expletive to close up large numbers S, 5. Der. p6ki. 



pum-, pun-, double prefix ; see po-. 



pumpasatit, cf. ilidshas. 



pun ay as, abbr. from opunayiis, q.v. imponayatis said., spoke 

 to the/n 16, 34. Der. unayiis ; cf. i-unayas. 



