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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



abehpa [from abeha], v. a. i. dual, to 

 enter; to come in. 



abeka, n., sickness; disease; malady; 

 illness; a disorder; a distemper; an in- 

 disposition; isht abeka, infection, lit., 

 sick with, or by means of; cause of 

 sickness. 



abeka, n., the sick; the person or per- 

 sons affected with disease; abeka im- 

 a n sha, their sick, Matt. 14: 14. 



abeka, a., sick; unwell; diseased; in- 

 disposed; out of health; disordered; 

 ill; sickly; unsound; isht abeka, a., in- 

 fected; sick with; neg. , ikabeko, salu- 

 brious; not sickly. See Matt. 9: 2. 



abeka, v. t., to be sick; to be unwell, 

 diseased, or indisposed. 



abeka, v. a. i., to sicken; isht abeka, sick 

 of, Matt. 8: 6, 14; 9: 6. 



abeka, pass., distempered. 



abeka apistikeli, n., a nurse; a watcher. 



abeka apistikeli, v. t. , to watch the sick; 

 to nurse; to tend the sick. 



abeka chuhmi, a., poorly; sickly; some- 

 what sick. 



abeka haleli, v. t., to take a disease by 

 infection; to catch sickness. 



abeka haleli, n., contagion; infection. 



abeka haleli, a., contagious; infectious; 

 catching. 



abeka lakna, n., the yellow fever; 

 jaundice; lit., yellow sickness. 



abeka okpulo, n., a fatal or mortal sick- 

 ness; applied to a pest; a pestilence; 

 a plague; the cholera. 



abeka shali, n., sickliness; a., sickly. 



abeka shali, n., an invalid. 



abeka yatuk, v. t., that were diseased, 

 Matt. 14: 35. 



abekachi, v. t. caus., to sicken; to make 

 sick; to disease; to distemper; to indis- 

 pose; isht abekachi, v. t., to infect; to 

 sicken by means of; ilabekachi, 2 Sam. 

 13: 2, 5, 6. 



abekoma, v. a. i., to be sickly, as Timoli 

 abekoma, 1 Tim. 5 (heading). 



abela (from abili), pp. poled; bushed. 



abela, n., the place or thing poled or 

 bushed. 



abeli, v. t. pi. of fohki, to put in, Mark 

 12: 42; to put on; to ring, i. e., to fit 

 with a ring, as the fingers; to stuff. 



abeli, n., he who puts on or in. 



abema, abehma (from aba and ima), 

 v. i., to be halfway; to be higher up. 



abenili, abinili (from a, there, and 

 bin Hi, to sit), v. a. i., to sit down at; 

 to settle at, as in making any place a 

 home. 



abenili, abinili, abenili, n., a settler; a 

 colonist; the sitting down or meeting, 

 as at a "cry;" a colony, see ok/a wiha 

 abinili, Acts 16: 12. 



abenilichi, abinilichi, v. t., to settle; 

 to establish in business or in life, or at 

 any place. 



abenilichi, abinilichi, n., one that settles 

 another in a place, or in business. 



abeta, abita, passive of abili, poled. 



abi, v. t, to kill, Gen. 37: 26. See 

 abi, from which abi is derived by 

 lengthening the first vowel; abitok a™, 

 which killed, Luke 13: 4. 



abicha, abicheli, n., a tap hole; a bung- 

 hole; a faucet; a spout. 



abichakali, a., nineteen. 



abichakaliha, adv., nineteen times; gl>i- 

 chakaliha pisali kamo, I did see it 

 nineteen times. 



abicheli, see abicha. 



abicheli isht akamassa, n., a spigot; a 

 spile. 



abichkachi, n. pi., tap holes. 



abila, v. a. i., to thaw, as snow or ice; to 

 thaw there; to melt at or there; pi., 

 abela; (taloa kat sachu n kash a abelah — 

 J. E.); ikabilo, or ikabelo, a., undis- 

 solved, where it does not melt. 



abilia, adv., always, John 11: 42. 



abila, pass, of abili, poled; bushed; 

 pointed at. 



abilepa, n., the place aimed at, or 

 pointed at. 



abilepa, a., seated round. 



abilepa, v. a. i., to be seated round. 



abili, v. t. pi., to set in by the ends; 

 to stick; to pole; to bush; to furnish 

 with poles or bushes, as peas or beans. 



abilibli, v. t. sing., to point at a place 

 or thing, some object. 



abina, n., a camp; a lodging out of doors 

 with or without a shelter overhead. 



abina, v. i., to camp; to encamp; to lodge 

 out of doors. 



abinachi, n., an encampment. 



