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Wlien the dance house had been built, the people wondered what to 

 call it. They all gave the matter thought, but could not arrive at a name. 

 I* When an old woman heard that they had built a place to dance, 

 she jokmgly said, "Well, gd:dhahi:yd ('maiden, I-still')!" 



The people laughed, and one said, "Let's call this place the ga:dM:i. 

 It's a good name," ^* 



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|| « Needless to say, this charming bit of folk etymology Is not to be taken seriously. The editors suggest 

 that the several terms for the Cherokee townhouse may be derived from the verb stem -dhi- ('to insert it 

 [long]'), a reference to a pole stuck into the ground. In Oklahoma the "stomp ground," the central meeting 

 place and dancing place of the community, traditionally had a pole in the center of the area— a return, 

 perhaps, to something antedating the heptagonal. 



