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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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of uncle calls his niece's husband ha- 

 loka, and the latter calls this uncle 

 haloka in return. 



haloka, a., sacred; beloved; dear. 



halonlabi. halunlabi, halunlawi, n., the 

 largest kind of bullfrog. [The word is 

 to be found in Halunlawa n sha, "Bull- 

 frogs are there," or, more concisely, 

 "Bullfrog place," the name of a village 

 which stood on the site of the present 

 Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Missis- 

 sippi, and is recorded on Bernard Ro- 

 mans' map of 1775 as Alloon Loan- 

 shaw.— H. S. H.] 



halupa, haluppa, halappa, a., sharp; 

 acute; keen; fine; piked; poignant; 

 rough; rude; rugged; shrill; ikhalupo, 

 a., dull; not sharp; obtuse. 



halupa, v. n., to be sharp, acute, keen. 



halupa, pp., sharpened; filed, as a saw; 

 pointed; whetted. 



halupa, n., sharpness; keenness; edge; 

 an edge tool; point; roughness; tqnap 

 a n yai n na halupa, armor, 1 Kings, 10: 25. 



halupa, adv., sharply. 



halupa tuklo, a., double-edged; two- 

 edged. 



halupoa, v. n. pi., to be sharp. 



halupoa, a., sharp; keen; acute. 



halupoa, pp. pi., sharpened. 



haluppa, see halupa. 



haluppachi, v. t. sing., to sharpen; to 

 edge; to file a saw to sharpen it; to 

 point; to tip; to whet. 



haluppachi, n., a whetter. 



haluppalli, v. t. pi., to sharpen. 



halu n s, yalu n s, hallu n s, n., the leech; 

 a bloodsucker. 



halu n s chito, n., the horse leech. 



halusbi, see halasbi. 



halusbichi, see halqsbichi. 



halussi, see holussi. 



halushki, n., lubricity; sleekness. 



halushki, a., smooth; sleek; glib. 



halushki, v. n., to be smooth; to be 

 sleek or glib. 



halushki, pp., smoothed; sleeked; lubri- 

 cated; planed. 



halushkichi, v. t., to make it smooth or 

 sleek; to plane; to glib; to sleek; iti- 

 bqsliaya n halushkichi, to plane a plank; 

 to make smooth the sawed wood. 



hala, n., name of a serpent. 



hatan, n., a large blackbird. 



hah; in alia uakni siahalili, I am a boy; 

 perhaps it should be alili, from which 

 comes ahnili. 



[hamintini, n., the june-bug. — H. S. H.] 



hamo, adv.; in imaiithqna aleha liamo, 

 John 4: 8; see arno and yamo. 



hanahchi, ha n chi, v. a. L, to hop on 

 foot. 



hanahchi, n., a hopper; a hop. 



hanaiya, a., triangular; three cornered; 

 nantapqsli hanaiya, a three-cornered 

 handkerchief. 



hanaiya, n., a triangle; the shape made 

 by splitting a square handkerchief 

 diagonally. 



hanaiyachi, v. t., to make a triangle. 



hanali, n., a limb of the body, or a 

 quarter; one limb of a quadruped with 

 the adjoining parts; a member; hanali 

 okpulo, lame, Matt. 15: 30; halt, Matt. 

 18: 8. 



hanalushta, n., the four limbs; the four 

 quarters of any animal. 



hanaweli, v. t., to double a handker- 

 chief diagonally, tie it over one shoul- 

 der, and around the body under the 

 other arm, and wear it. 



hanaweli, n., one who wears a hand- 

 kerchief thus. 



hanannu n ki, v. n., to be dizzy. 



hananukichi, v. t., causative, to cause 

 dizziness. 



hanchi, v. t., to shell, as to shell off the 

 outer shell of hickory nuts. 



hanla, ha n ya, pp., shelled. 



hanlichi, v. t., to shell or shuck hick- 

 ory nuts. 



hannali, hannali, n., six; 6; VI; the 

 number six. 



hannali, a., six. 



hannali, v. n., to be six; hannali hoke, 

 there are six; see below. 



hannali, v. a. i., to make six; as ehan- 

 nali, we make 6; hannalashke, Josh. 6: 3. 



hannalichi, v. caus., to make six; han- 

 nalet qbelih, I killed off six, or took six 

 and killed; lichi is contracted to let. 



hano, part., as for the; antishu hano, 

 Matt. 12: 17, 18. 



hanta, a., nas. form, from hqta (q. v.), 

 pale; white; bright; clear; ripe, as 

 grain ready for the harvest, John 4: 35; 

 wan; peaceable; anumpa hanta, Matt. 

 4: 23. 



