GATSCHET — KAS. I,EG. APPENDIX VIII. [225] 193 



tuliimnaguk and tuluptaguk to roll, v. trans. Cr. tuhimita. 



tchiil, shula pi?te-tree, tchii tree, Cr. tcholi, tsiili. 



ula snake, borrowed from Cha'lita lila noisy, rattling-; sint' 



olio rattlesnake, Cha'hta. 

 y an ash a buffalo. C. yanasa, yenasa. 



The Tiiiiucua language of Florida has borrowed several terms 

 from the Maskoki dialects, especially from Seminole -Creek, 

 which was spoken in closest vicinity to it. Among these are 

 ifa dog", hii'li (spelt there "hurri") war, yatiki interpreter, 

 tola laurel or siveet-bay ; while the word abu, apu sticky wood,, 

 tree (in Creek and Hitchiti abi, api stem, stick) was common 

 to botli fiimilies. The terms hiniha and hola'hta were probably 

 borrowed by the Creeks from the Timucua, who obtained their 

 term paracussi sub-chief, village-chief from the Yuchi : pa' Ian 

 kiusia'" " chief very small." 



In the Tonica language, which I had occasion to study in 

 18S6, some of the shorter terms, like arrow, resemble Maskoki 

 words, especially of the Koassati dialect, but do not rest on true 

 affinity. The grammars of both stocks differ entirely. But the 

 term for b?iffalo, yanasa, is common to Tonica, Naktche, Che- 

 roki and the Maskoki dialects, while Yuchi has : wetine ka fat 

 cattle, from wetine cattle, cow. 



Comparisons with languages spoken west of the Mississippi 

 river have yielded but few terms which can with safety be 

 regarded as Maskoki loan-words, and this may figure as an 

 additional argument against an immigration of the Maskoki tribes 

 from these parts in more recent times. We may compare, how- 

 ever, the word for maize, in Wichita tash (ta'dse tash maize 

 stalk, tatste-e tash ear of com) with the Cha'hta tandshi maize. 

 All other Pani dialects differ in this term. 



