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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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following word and often qualifies it if 

 verb, as adverbs do. 



a n lit achi, v. a. i., to speak truly; or, to 

 true and speak; or, he trues and speaks. 



ahyuha, v. a. i., to pursue, Josh. 8: 16; 

 neg. ikaiiyuho, Josh. 8: 17. 



alohbi, a., warm; hot. 



alohbi, v. n., to be warm or hot; siqlohbi, 

 I am warm. 



alohbi, pass., heated; burnt; warmed; 

 tanchi at alohbi, the corn is burnt. 



alohbichi, v. t. caus., to warm; to heat. 



alopoli, n. pi., fords, passes. 



alopoli, v. a. i. pi., to pass through at. 



alopolichi, v. t. caus., to take through. 



alopulli, n. sing., a ford; a pass; a ferry; 

 a crossing. 



alopulli, v. a. i., to pass through at. 



alopullichi, v. t. caus., to take through 

 at. 



alopullichi, n.,one that conducts through 

 at. 



alukafa, n., a perforation. 



alukali, n. pi., perforations; or pp., per- 

 forated at. 



alumpa, n., a perforation; place pierced; 

 a puncture. 



am, a prefixed pronoun; of the same 

 meaning as a n , an, and am; I, as 

 amponna, I am skilled, I know; qma- 

 hoba, I reckon, I presume, or it seems 

 to me; me in the objective or dative 

 case, as ampota, to lend to me; am is 

 usually found before words beginning 

 with p and b; am before vowels, amis- 

 suba; qmia; go for me and sam after 2d 

 person sing., and plural, issamithana, 

 thou knowest me; hqssqmithana, ye 

 know me. 



ama; see kama, Acts, 24: 11 [?]. 



amakali, a., graceful. 



amakali, v. n., to be graceful. 



amakalichi, v. t., to render graceful. 



amali, v. a. i., to turn there, on, or over. 



amalichi, n., a floor or place for win- 

 nowing grain, Luke 3: 17. 



amalichi, v. t., to winnow there, at, or 

 by; to fan. 



amashlichi, v. t., to fan. 



amashlichi, n., a fan; a fanner. 



amba, conj., but, John 1: 12; however; 

 unless; amba is the nasal form of aba, 

 and is derived from aba, being above 

 or out of; or from a™, and ba, an ad- 



verb meaning really [merely]; amba, 

 but, Matt. 6: 33; 18: 16; amba na holis- 

 sochi, and, Matt. 7: 29; 10: 30; amba 

 yqmmak okqto, Matt. 13: 11, 48. 



amia; Chihowa at amia tuchina, Hymn 

 Book, page 206. II. 



amih, see mih. 



amih achafa, a., one; the same; tuchina 

 iknanakia amih achafa hake, 1 John 

 5:7[?]. 



amiha, n., a saying; a maxim; a remark; 

 a subject of conversation. 



amihachi, v. t., to accuse, Matt. 27: 12. 



ami n ko, v. t., to reign, Luke 19: 15. 



amilofa, n., a place which is filed; or, 

 pp., filed there. 



aminti, n., source; origin; the place 

 whence anything comes; a fountain; 

 a germ ; the spring. 



aminti, v. a. i., to come from. 



amisho n fa, sing. v. a. i., to rub on or 

 against. 



amisho n fa, pp., a., rubbed. 



amishofli, v. t. sing., to rub against. 



amishoha, pp. pi., rubbed. 



amishohachi, v. t. pi., to rub against. 



amishokachi, n., a rub. 



ami n shokachi, amoshokachi, ami- 

 shokachi, v. a. i. pi., to rub; it rubs 

 against. 



amisholichi, v. t., to rub. 



amisholichi, n., a rubber. 



amo, art., the; the one which; the said; 

 it is used in the nom. and obj. cases, 

 Josh. 6: 22; amo, hamo, yamo, kamo, 

 kqmo, chamo may be classed with ad- 

 verbs of past time, Matt. 22: 8; in nom. 

 case, John 21: 21. 



amochonli, v. t., to wink at. 



amohsholechi, v. t. caus., to precipi- 

 tate; to drive forward. 



amokafa, v. t., to attack; to run upon, 

 Luke 14: 31; to meet in battle, Matt. 

 24: 7. 



amokafl, v. a., to rise; itamokqfi, Matt. 

 24: 7; Luke 14: 31. 



amona, ammona, hammona, adv. or 

 n., the first; the beginning, amona yan, 

 at first, John 1: 1. 



amoshokachi, see aminshokachi. 



amosholi, a., greedy; precipitous; reso- 

 lute. 



amosholi, see amoshuli. 



amoshuli, amohsholi, v. t., v. a. L, to 



