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chalakbi, see chilakbi. 



chalakwa, see chilakwa. 



chalantnk, see chilantak. 



Chalakki, r. ; a Cherokee; the Cherokee. 



Chalakki, ;'., Cherokee. 



Chalakki hatak, n., a Cherokee man; a 

 Cherok( v. 



Chalakki okla, the Cherokee people; 

 the Cherokee nation; the Cherokee. 



chalak, n., a snap; the noise made by 

 snapping a gunlock. 



chalakachi, v. a. i. , to snap; to say chalak. 



chalakwa, chalakba, n., a copperhead 

 snake. 



cha n lchaha; aka n ka at cha n chaha, the 

 cackling of a hen after laying an egg. 



chalek, a. , possible, and known to both 

 speaker and hearer; chalek, recent past 

 time; -k is contracted from kamo; it 

 may have been, Gen. 3: 1; it might 

 have been; perhaps it was, and you and 

 I knew it; cJii n chnka onali chalek? did I 

 not go to your house (and you knew it)? 



chali, v. n., to be possible, and some- 

 thing known to both speaker and 

 hearer. 



chali, v. a. i., to stride; to walk fast. 



chali, a., fast; swift. 



chali, n., a fast walker. 



chalichi, v. t. caus., to cause to walk 

 fast; to make him walk fast. 



chalik, adv., possibly; perhaps; surely, 

 and known {chalek, Gen. 3: 1, old 

 translation; Jiachimachi chalek). 



chalin, adv., possibly; probably; same 

 as chalek, but referring to a more remote 

 past time. 



chamak, n. , a clink. 



chamakachi, chama n kachi, v. a. i., to 

 clink; to say chamak. 



chamo, a., past, gone by and remotely; 

 kamo and kamo express a time that is 

 recent. These words can be translated 

 by was, were, have been, chamo is used 

 for renewed mention and indicates 

 something seen or well known to the 

 speaker; yohmi chamo, it was so. There 

 is another mode of expressing the same 

 idea, viz., yohmin, it was so, and I saw 

 it; lakoffinn, he has recovered to my 

 personal knowledge. 



chamo, v. n., to be past. 



chamo, adv., used after verbs, and not 

 only qualifies them, but also indicates 



the remote past tense and that the 

 thing spoken of was seen or well known 

 to the speaker, as though he were an 

 eye or ear witness; still tok is used by 

 some speakers before chamo. See kamo 

 and kamo. 



champko, n., the shin. 



champ ulachi, v. t., to sweeten; to honey. 



champuli, n., sweetness; honey. 



champuli, a., sweet; grateful to the 

 taste; grateful to the heart; dulcet; lus- 

 cious; saccharine. 



champuli, v. n., to be sweet. 



champuli, pp., sweetened. 



champuli, n., sweetness; honey. 



chanahachi, v. t. pi., to turn them 

 around; to roll them over; to cause 

 them to run around. 



chanaia; itachanaia, v. a. i., to be two 

 together alone, like an old man and 

 woman at home alone. 



chanakbi, v. n., to be crooked; see 

 chinakbi. 



chanakbichi, see chinakbichi. 



chanashik, n., a large yellow wasp. 



chanalli, v. a. i., to roll over; to move 

 or run on wheels, as a wagon; to run; 

 to roll; to turn; to turn over, as a 

 wheel, not as a log (tonoli, to roll over 

 as a log); itachanalli, to roll together. 



chanalli, n. pi., a wheel; a circle. 



chanalli, n., a rotation. 



chanallichi, v. t., to roll; to turn it over; 

 to wheel; itqchanallichi, to roll them to- 

 gether. 



chanichi, v. t. sing., to roll; to turn 

 around; to cause to run round, as a 

 wheel. 



chanla, a., dry, as corn and hickory 

 meats; dry and tough; cured. 



chanli, v. t., to chop; to cut with an ax 

 or hoe by striking; to gash; chali, sub- 

 positive, to peck; to hew; to strike with 

 the teeth, as a venomous serpent; to 

 chop (modern); to hurt; to pick; to 

 slash; cha n }ieli; chanlit tablilok, cut off, 

 Mark 14: 47; ilechanli, to cut himself; 

 itinchanli, to peck or to chop each other. 



chanli, n., one who chops; a pecker; "a 

 hewer," Josh. 9: 21. 



chanlichi, v. t., to cause to chop. 



chant, contracted from chanlit; the t has 

 the force of the conj. and. 



