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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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chant akkachi, v. t., to cut down or to 

 chop and bring down; clianlit akqchi, 

 cut it down; Luke 13: 7. 



chant kinaffi, v. t., to cut down; or to 

 chop and fell. 



chant lakot bakli, v. t., to score. 



chant tapli, v. t., to cut off; to chop and 

 sever; chanlit tqbli, Mark 14: 47. 



chant tushtuli, v. t., to hack, or to chop 

 and cut up fine. 



Chanueli, n., January. 



cha n sa, cha n s, n., a sound in the ear; a 

 tingle, 1 Sam. 8: 11; 2 Kings 21: 12. 



cha n sa, a., shrill. 



cha n sa, v. n., to be shrill. 



cha n sa, v. a. i. , to shrill ; to utter an acute, 

 piercing sound; to shriek; to tingle, as 

 the ear. See 1 Sam. 3: 11. 



chasaloha, v. n., to be crooked. 



chasaloha, n., crooks; bends. 



chasaloha, chassaloha, a., pi. of cha- 

 sola, crooked; bent; having hollows or 

 bends; pass., warped; ikchasaloho, un- 

 warped. 



chasalohachi, v. t. pi., to make them 

 crooked, or to make crooks; to warp. 



chasala, a., crooked; bent; having a 

 hollow or bend; wak nqli chasala, a 

 crooked-back cow. 



chasala, pass., warped; bent; ikchqsalo, 

 a., un warped; unbent. 



chasala, v. a. i., to warp; to bend; iti- 

 bqsha at chasala, the plank warps. 



chasala, n., a bend; a crook; a warp. 



chasalachi, v. t., to crook; to bend; to 

 make crooked; to warp; hashi at itibq- 

 sha ya n ontomi kat chasalachi, the sun 

 which shines on the plank warps it. 



chasalla, v. n., to be crooked or bent. 



chasalli, v. a. i., to glance off. 



chasallichi, v. t., to turn it; to glance off. 



chash, the said ; the same, known to both 

 speaker and hearer, and in remote 

 past time; chash and its compounds 

 are used as simple or compound rela- 

 tive pronouns in relation to subjects 

 that are past; it may be called a per- 

 sonal pronoun in the remote past tense; 

 kash and kash (q. v.) refer to the im- 

 mediate past tense; chash signifies the 

 same which; the said; late, known to 

 both speaker and hearer; a renewed 

 mention particle; oh chash, it is the 

 said; being "the said"; used in calling 



the dead to mind, or in speaking of 

 them, instead of mentioning their 

 names. Compounds: chashinli, the 

 same also which was; compounded of 

 chash and inli, same, also — chashket the 

 same that was; that which; alichashket, 

 that is what I said but recently, and 

 you know it; it is in the nom. case; ket 

 may be formed from kat or it may be 

 from ke and t, like kesh from ke and sh — 

 chashkia, even the same which was, and 

 you knew it — chashkint, the same which 

 was, but more remote than chash ket, 

 in the nom. case — chasho n , the same 

 which; the said one (in the obj. case); 

 see grammar for these particles or arti- 

 cle pronouns — chashocha — chashoka — 

 chashokako — chashokakosh — chashokqno 

 — chashokqt — chashokqto — chashoke — 

 chashokia — chashoma — chash ona — chash - 

 osh — chashot. 



chasha, chasha, n. ; inchqsha, his rat- 

 tles; sintulo inchasha, the rattles of the 

 rattle snake. 



chashahachechi, v. t., to make him 

 rattle; to rattle. 



cha n sha, v. a. i., to rattle, like a rattle- 

 snake. 



chashahachi, v. t. pi., to rustle; to rat- 

 tle, as the rattlesnake; sintulo at chasha- 

 hachi, the rattlesnake rattles. 



chashaiyi, v. a. i., to be round and ele- 

 vated, as a mound. 



chashak, n., a rustling; a rattling — a sin- 

 gle motion. 



chashakachi, v. a. i. sing., to rustle once; 

 it says chashak. 



chashakachi, n., a rattling; a rustling. 



chashampik, n., a grindstone (called 

 also tql ashuahchi and tashika). 



chashana, v. a. i. , to hang over and own 

 as the skirts of a common coat. 



chashana, a., having skirts that hang 

 down; hanging over and down, as na 

 foka chashana, a coat. 



chashanachi, v. t., to cause to hang over. 



chashap, n., a variety of grasshopper. 



chashlichi, v. t., to rattle; to make a 

 rustling noise. 



cha n shpo (a Sixtowns word), a., former; 

 ancient; of things, or time: nilak cha n - 

 shpo, a former day; future, like tikba; 

 first in order. 



