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tchawa-is, tchawas I take, cany, hold more than one object; 

 cf. isas. 



tche, tcha expletive at end of sentences 8, 20 — especially of 

 long speeches and directed to those only who sit or stand 

 at a distance. The meaning of this untranslatable particle 

 is "my sentence is rounded up." Cf. tchi in i. 186. 



Tchiaha, Tchiyaha, nom. pr. Chiaha Indian. They form a 

 Lower Creek tribe ; their name is Cheroki ("at the place 

 of otters," tchi-ia otter.) A town of this name exists now 

 in the Creek nation, Ind. Terr., q.v. Coll., Tchiyahalgi 

 t//c Chiaha Indians 8, 13. 



tchiyas, du. tchihuyis, pi. tchiyis and sitchiyis / enter, go 

 into ; cf. aktchiyas, i'litchivas. 



Tchikasa, coll. Tchikasalgi, nom. pr. Chicasa Indian ; their 

 tribe once lived north of the Cha'hta nation in Northern Mis- 

 sissippi and in Western Tennessee 12, 9. 



tchikfi, pi. tchiktchifi thick, said of water, liquids, boards, 

 cloth, etc. 8, 27. 



T c h i k i 1 1 i , nom. pr. of T'ch ikilli, head-chief of the confederacy 

 of the Upper and Lower Creeks. At the Savannah council 

 of 1735 he delivered an allocution to Gov. Oglethorpe, in 

 which he recounted the national migration legend of the 

 Kasi'hta tribe. Cf. 8, 2. 7 and Notes. His name, "making 

 a short step backwards," from atchikillas. 



tchilasas i) I ritb, friction. 2) I shell, husk; adshin tch. 

 I shell maize l adshi tchillaskadi hamgin one grain of maize 

 shelled out. 



tchimi, pron. pers. 2d p. sing, thou; also, thyself, yourself; 

 cf. i. 203. 



tchimi, tchin- jK^^r, yours, pron. poss. of 2d p. pi.; tchime-u 

 yours also 16, 35 ; tchinhupuitagi vour children. 



tchimitagi and tchintagi, pron. pers. 2d ^p. ^\.^ ye, yoiirselves ; 

 cf. i. 203. 



tchissi rat; house-rat. 



tchoko, tchuko, tsuku, tche';/o house, lodge, cabin, building ; 

 tchuku 'lako town-house, great house ; described i. 171 sqq. 

 tchukofa 'lako council-house i. 174 sqq. 



