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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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atelifa, atilifa, v. a. i., to crowd; to 

 press, Luke 5:1; to stand in a crowd, as 

 a multitude of people. 



atelifa, pp., crowded; pressed; neg. 

 Mark 3: 9. 



atelifichi, v. t.,to throng; to crowd, Luke 

 8:45. 



atepa, pp., screwed. 



atepa, n., a tent. 



atepuli, v. t., to make a camp with a 

 shelter or covering, whether made of 

 bark, wood, cloth, or grass; to tent. 



atia, n., a way; an alley; an avenue; a 

 passage; a track; a row; an access; an 

 exit; an orbit; a pathway; a road. 



atia, v. a. i., to travel a road for the first 

 time; hashatia keyu chatuk, Josh. 2: 16; 

 hashatia hetuk, Josh. 3: 4; to go up, 

 Josh. 12: 7; see ata n ya. 



atia, v. t., to obey; to follow; to serve, 

 Josh. 5: 6; antia, nasal form and the 

 one most used, with a prefixed pro. 

 am, chim, im, etc. ; imantia, to obey him; 

 isJiimanUa, you obey him; iksaman- 

 tioshke, he does not obey me; isht alia, 

 v. a. i., to rise from; to descend from, 

 as a race of beings; isht atiaka, n., seed; 

 progeny, 1 Kings 11: 14. 



atiballi, a., greedy; gluttonous. 



atiballi, v. n., to be greedy; to be glut- 

 tonous. 



atiha, n., a place that has been plucked, 

 or where anything has been pulled up 

 by the roots. 



atikeli, n., a rack. 



atikkonofa, v. a. i., to be near to; to ap- 

 proach, Josh. 3: 4; 8: 5; to be narrow, 

 Josh. 17: 15. 



atila, atela, n., a place hewed or blazed; 

 a mark on a tree made by hewing off 

 the bark. 



atila, pp., cut; hewed. 



atilichi, v. t., to hew; iti an atilichi, to 

 hew the wood; to cut the wood. 



atilichi, n., a hewer. 



atilifa, see atelifa. 



atiwa, atua, n., an opening; a gap; 

 an aperture; a breach; a break. 



ato, art., the one, as for the; the sign of 

 the distinctive article pronoun in the 

 conjunctive form, as ano is of the dis- 

 junctive form. This form is more dis- 

 tinctive than at and at. It is also writ- 

 ten hato, yato, ato, hato, and yqto (q. v.). 

 84339°— Bull. 46—15 5 



ato, rel. pro., used after verbs, the one 

 which or who, as for the one which. 



atoba, v. a. i., to make of or from; to 

 be begotten of; Chinas at atobat attain/:, 

 Matt. 1: 16; chiatoba, Matt. 2: 5, 6; 

 isht atoba, to increase by means of. 



atoba, n., the place where anything was 

 made, formed, grew, ripened, or came 

 into being; a germ. The word has a 

 general meaning and is formed from a, 

 place where, and toba, to be made, to 

 become. 



atobachi, atobachi, v. t., to raise up 

 at; to make; to cause to become; to 

 cause to supply the place of another; 

 to cause to fill the place of another, 

 Luke 20: 28; itatobachi, v. t., to com- 

 mute; to fill each other's places. 



atobahpi, n., beginning; first formation; 

 aJipi first, toba made, a at. 



atobba hinla, a., responsible; reward- 

 able. 



atobbi, v. t., to pay, Matt. 5: 26; to 

 recompense; to reward, Matt. 6: 4, 18; 

 to atone; to avenge; to revenge; to 

 retaliate; to liquidate; to render an 

 equivalent; to compensate; to defray; 

 to disburse; to expiate; to fee; to give; 

 to quit; to redress; to remunerate; to 

 repay; to requite; to respond; to retri- 

 bute; to return; to satisfy; to toll; 

 isht atobba hinla, to give in exchange 

 for, Matt. 16: 26; isht imaiobbi, to re- 

 ward him, Matt, 16, 27; alhtoba, pp., 

 paid; akchialhtoba, v. a. i., let me take 

 your place; ilatobbi, v. ref., to revenge 

 himself; ilatomba, to save for himself. 



atobbi, n., a payer; a rewanler; a re- 

 venger; an avenger; a defrayer; a pay- 

 master. 



atobbi, n., a payment; remuneration. 



atobbichi, v. t., to change; to replace; 

 to cause to pay; to exact; to put in 

 place of, Josh. 5: 7; to place instead of; 

 itatobbichi, v. t., to reverse; to invert; 

 to exchange. 



atobbichi, n., an exactor. 



atobbichi hilechi, v. t,, to pawn. 



atobbit foka, v. t., to shift a garment; 

 to change, as clothes. 



atohchi, n., a shot bag; a shot pouch; a 

 pouch. 



atohni, v. t., to watch; see atoni. 



