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s6ti persiin7non. Cr. sata. 



suli buzzard. Cr. siili. 



ta'hsi and atsa war-club; Cr. atasa. Cf. also: atak stick in 



Mohawk ; ata'hsa cane., stick., rod in Cayuga and Oneida. 



The high post which formerly stood in Atasi village on 



Tallapoosa river (vol. i. 128) is probably a representation 



of the restless or leaning pole occurring in some of the 



Maskoki rrfigration legends, 

 tchoyi poplar., trough., canoe. Alibamu, Koassati, H. tch6ye 



tchoyi ; Cr. tcholi pine-tree. Cf. Naktche. (Tree names 



sometimes alter their signification.) 

 wahya gray wolf. Alibamu and Cr. yaha. 



There may be also an old connection between Cher, tiiksi 

 terrapin and Cha'hta liikshi turtle; cf. also pakani nut o{^\\k- 

 wano (Algonkin family) with pakanudshi plum., lit. "little peach" 

 in Creek. 



NAKTCHE-MA.SKOKI LOAN-WORDS. 



The confederacy of the Naktche villages on the Mississippi 

 river, with its narrowly circumscribed territory, contained several 

 villages speaking languages of diflTerent families. In 1885 I had 

 the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the Naktche lan- 

 guage as formerly spoken by the ruling class in that confed- 

 eracy, and herewith present some of its terms which were either 

 borrowed, or show so close a resemblance as to be easily mis- 

 aken for loan-words. Two of them, rattle and to cough., are 

 perhaps onomatopoetic. 



a'sha hickory-tree. Cr. odshi. Hitch, odshagi. 



a'dsha, atch bog-potato. Cr. and other M. dialects ahi, ahe. 



int, i"ta tooth. Cr., H. and Cha'hta niiti ; Koassati nati. 



m a k here. Cr. man there. 



mak'hawish to speak. Cr. makita. 



ne'hkwa, n€\\v.,ViQW grease., fat. Cr. niha ; Cha'hta nia. 



ohonaktik to cojigh. Cr. ohokita. 



oktu'l eye. Cr. tu'lua. 



piiftav / blow. Cr. piifkiis. 



shakshak'halish rattle., subst. Cr. sa-uka, shauka. 



