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CADDO GLOSSARY 



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Gu'kw&te— my (plural); giUwi'i'iula, my 

 (singular); ha'nin gu'iwiits, my chil- 

 dren. 

 Hd'-ia—te (slie) dwells there below. 



Compare Kb id 

 Ha imi — large. 



Hai'-nai — a tribe of the Caddo confed- 

 eracy. 

 lid nan or 7/<i»m — there he is! that is he! 

 Ha a, mi in — this feather, the feather; 

 ni l,,h, feather; ha'taha, feather (ge- 

 neric). 

 Ha'natobi'na — a feather headdress; 

 feathers prepared to wear on the head. 

 lln urn — children. 

 II a ni I n — for Ni toll. 

 ETosi ni or Hani nai — the Caddo; the gen- 



eric name used by themselves. 

 Ha'taha— feather (generic); nitoh, 



feather I Bpecifie . 

 11a in in, i — paint. 

 Ha'yano — people. 



lln iju — above, on high. Compare Na- 

 irn' yo. 

 He'eye'! — an unmeaning exclamation 



used in the songs. 

 Hie yahe eye". — ibid. 

 He'yawe'ya! — ibid. 

 He'yoi'ya! — ibid. 

 Hi'na — eagle feathers. 

 II a — grandmother; a term sometimes 



applied to the thunder or storm spirit. 

 Inii — mother; na ina', mother above. 

 I'tsiya — I have come; hatsi'Hs, I come. 

 1'ivi — eagle: also the name of a Caddo 



gens. 

 Ka gdhdnin — thunder; a Caddo gens. 

 Ka'g'aih — crow; a Caddo gens. 

 Kalaiia — they cried; lia'iaikalca s, I cry. 

 Ka nisi — " cheats; " the Caddo name for 

 the Kiowa Apache, Lipan, and Meseal- 

 ero. 

 Kt'sbi — panther; a Caddo gens. 

 Kina I — village, town, settlement. 

 Kohu' — alligator; another name for the 

 'la naha or Buffalo gens of the Caddo. 

 Ko'id — where he dwells above; td'-id, he 



dwells above; datsii'd, I dwell above. 

 Na — see! look! now! — also coming 

 down from above, as iici-na, the eagle 

 coining down from above. 

 Nad' — father above, i. e., God; from da', 



father, and na, above, on high. 

 Na ilnl.a — with the people. 

 Nahd — that's all! now you Bee! there 

 now ! 



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Naha'yo — up, above, the plural of lla'yo. 



Hani nl iliinll ,i na kayo, all the Caddo 



arc going up, everybody of the Caddo 



is going up. 



Na-iye' — sister above; from no, above, 



in composition, and iye', sister. 

 Nana' or Nd'ndnd' — that one (demonstra- 



t ive). 

 Nana'sana — in he making it? 

 Na'ni asa — they are using it; Inr Isma'sa, 



I use it. 

 Na'nia'sana — for Na'ni asa. 

 Nd'nisa'na — an Arapaho word, adopted 

 by the Caddo in the Ghost-dance songs 

 and meaning "my children." 

 \n nisa na gao'shdn — "Niiuisana dance," 

 one of the Caddo names for the Ghost 

 dance, from gao'shdn, a dance, and nii- 

 nisa'na ( q. v. i, an Arapaho word which 

 forms the burden of so many Arapaho 

 Ghost-dance songs. It is also called 

 Ad Kalci'mbawi&t, ''the prayer of all to 

 the Father." 

 Xa tsiwa'ya — I am coming. 

 Na iri — below; ha'yo. above. 

 Naiootsi — bear; a Caddo gens. 

 jVi — a syllable prefixed merely to fill in 



the meter. 

 Niah ti'na — for Ni'tah n nt. 

 Ni'lahn'iit — it has returned. It has come 

 back; tsitsilin'nd, I return; Ni''tsiho, 

 when I returned. 

 Ni lull — feather (specific); ha'taha, 



feather (generic). 

 Ni"tsiho — when I returned. Compare 



Ni'tahu'nt. 

 Nu'na — because. 

 ii at — raccoon; a Caddo gens. 

 nita — he comes ; a'tsius, I come. 

 Sha"chadi'ni — "Timber hill," a former 

 Caddo settlement on Caddo lake, 

 Louisiana. 

 Si lincha'ha — I want to see them ; hatsi'bos, 



I see. 

 Suko — sun; a Caddo gens. 

 Ta'-ia — he dwells above. Compare 



Ku in. 

 la miliii — buffalo; a Caddo gens. 

 Ta'o — beaver; a Caddo gens. 

 Tasha — wolf; a Caddo gens. 

 Tsaba'hosh — cut-throats; the Caddo name 



for the Sioux. 

 TTa'hiya'ne! — an unmeaning exclamation 



used in the songs. 

 Wi ahe eye 1 ! — ibid. 

 JVi'ti) .' — come on ! get ready. 

 Wu'nti — all of them. 



