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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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bachali, v. t. sing., to make a furrow for 



planting corn; to lay in a straight line; 



Hi tilit bachali, to blaze trees in a line 



for a road, 

 bachaya, a., prostrate, and lying in a row 



so as to touch all the way. 

 bachaya, v. a. i. sing., to lie connected 



in a line or row; tanchi inhina at bacha n - 



ya, the corn rows are laid off; iti at 



bachaya, the tree or the timber is laid ; 



ahcJiaba at boh a n bacha n ya, a foot log 



lies across the creek, 

 bachaya, v. pass., laid in a line; laid off; 



lusa at bachaya, the black (line) is laid, 



i. e., on a stick of timber for hewing; 



hina at bachaya, the road is laid off, or 



the road is marked off. 

 bachaya, n., a row; a line; a course; a 



vein; hina bachaya, line of a road, 



Josh. 2: 19. 

 bachoha, v. a. i. pi., to lie in courses; 



hina at bachoha, to lie in lines; issubaai- 



itinlimia yat bachoha, the race paths for 



horses are laid off, or are there, 

 bachoha, n. pi., rows; ranks; courses. 

 bachoha, pp. pass., laid in lines or 



courses. 

 bachohat ma n ya, v. a. i., to lie in rows 



or lines; hina at bachohat ma n ya hoka 



ishpisa chin, as the roads are laid off, 



you will see them. 

 bachohma n ya, n., a noun derived from 



the foregoing verb. 

 bacholi, v. t., to lay in rows or lines; 



to make rows, lines or furrows for rows, 

 bacholi, n. pi., rows, 

 bacholi, n. pi., those that lay off in 



rows. 

 bafaha, v. a. L, to grow, as a bush; osapa 



at bafahat kania, the field is grown over 



with bushes. 

 bafaha, n., a bush; a green bush; a 



thicket; bafaha and bafalli are both 



used for bush and bushes; bafaha chanli, 



cut a bush; bafalli chanli, cut the bushes; 



but bafaha anu n ka and bafalli anu n ka, 



in the bushes, is proper, 

 bafalli, n. pi., bushes; a thicket; green 



brush, 

 bafalli, v. a. L, to grow, as bushes; osapa 



yat bafallit kania, the field is grown over 



with bushes, 

 bafalli, a., shrubby; bushy. 



bafalli foka, a., bushy; grown up with 

 bushes (applied to a large place). 



bafalli talaia, n., a clump; a tuft; a small 

 thicket (applied to a small place). 



baha, pass., gored, stabbed, jabbed, by 

 being struck with a straight forward 

 blow; pricked; pierced; uski osh baha, 

 the cane jabbed him, iti osh baha, the 

 wood jabbed him, and bashpo yosh baha, 

 the knife jabbed him, are transitive 

 forms. 



baha, n., a jab; a stab; bansltpo baha, a 

 knife stab; uski baha, a cane stab. 



ba n hachi, n., baa, the cry of a sheep; 

 chukfi at bavhachi, the sheep says ba n h 

 or ba^anh. 



bahafa, pass., gored, stabbed, or jabbed 

 by being struck with a blow that comes 

 up, as cows do when they hook; alia 

 nakni at bahafa, the boy is gored. 



bahaffi, v. t. sing., to gore; to stab; to 

 jab; to pierce; to stick; to thrust with 

 an upward motion, as hogs with their 

 tusks and cattle with horns, and to 

 thrust a man with a knife with the 

 point up. 



bahaffi, n., a stabber; a gorer. 



bahpo, bappo, n., a kind of nut pudding 

 made of corn and peanuts. 



bahpo, pass, of bahpuli(q. v.), made into a 

 nut pudding; bahpot alhtaha, it is beaten 

 and ready. 



bahpuli, v. t., to beat up parched corn 

 and parched peanuts for bahpo; to 

 pound corn and peanuts for bahpo. 

 The corn and peanuts are both parched 

 and then beaten or pounded together. 

 The meat of hickory nuts is sometimes 

 used. 



bahta, n., a bag; a pack; a budget; a 

 knapsack; a scrip; a wallet, Matt. 10: 

 10, bahta at iksho, no scrip, Mark 6: 8. 

 This word differs but little from shukcha 

 (q. v.); hapi shukcha, salt sack, kafi 

 shukcha, coffee sack, are used, but not 

 bahta. 



bahta chito, n., a bale; a big bag. 



bahta chito abeli, v. t., to bale, or to 

 put up in a bale or big bag; tanchi a n 

 bahta chito yo n abeli, to put up corn in 

 a big bag. 



bahta chito abiha, pass., baled; put up 

 in a bale. 



