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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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sake of euphony, yet hon usually 

 follows a verb, yon a noun, and o n a 

 word which ends with a consonant, 

 as imk o 11 , hatak o n . But the 

 sense and the idiom of the Choctaw 

 will not always admit of rendering ho n , 

 o n , and yon by the article a or an; nor 

 will that of the English admit it 

 wherever the Choctaw language does. 

 It is also a relative pronoun, simple and 

 compound, when compounded having 

 different senses and used after different 

 parts of speech; ho, ho n , hoh (see o, o n , 

 oh), have the sense of the verb to be 

 in the 3d person, or of the auxiliary; 

 also to do; hqrliibaptismochilishke, I 

 do indeed baptize you, Matt. 3: 11, 

 Compounds: hocha — hoka, because, 

 since, Matt. 5: 22 — hokaka — hokaka- 

 no — hokakant — hokakanto, Luke 1: 37; 

 Chihowa hokakanto — hokakqt (I have 

 heard this particle used) — hokakqto — 

 hokakhe — hokakheno — hokakhet — hokak- 

 heto — hokakkia; mail, micha okhqta aiena 

 hokakkia, even the winds and the sea, 

 Matt. 8: 27 — hokakon — hokakorha — hoka- 

 kona — hokakosh; ishpisa hokakosh, thou 

 seest, Matt. 7: 3; chiahohakosh, thou 

 art, John 3: 10; pi n sa hokakosh, they 

 seeing, Matt. 13: 13; hahanklo hokakosh, 

 hearing, Matt. 13: 13; hashasha yoka- 

 kosh, "ye dwell," Josh. 9: 22 — haka- 

 kot — hokamo (ho and kqma); mintiliho- 

 kqmo, — hokqno (from ho and kqno); 

 na holissochi qleha hokqno, the scribes, 

 Matt. 7: 29; itihhokqno, their mouth, 

 Matt. 15: 8; keyu hokqno, which not, 

 Matt. 15: 13; isld impa hokqno to eat 

 with, Matt. 15:20 — hokqno, hokano, Josh. 

 1: 3, Matt. 16: 3; hahanklo hokqno, by 

 hearing, Matt. 13: 13; piliinsa hokqno, 

 seeing — hokqt, he who does, Matt. 5: 

 21 — hokqto, Malt. 5: 19, the one who 

 does (distinctive by way of comparison), 

 Matt. 5: 19; imachi hokqto, Matt. 5: 22; 

 atampa hokqto, Matt. 5: 37, ishanumpula- 

 chivhokqlo, Matt" 6: 6; qni keyu hokqto, 

 that bringeth not forth fruit, Matt. 7: 19; 

 they that, Matt. 11: 8; chnnkqsh okqto, 

 their heart, Matt. 15: 8; hqnnq hokqto, 

 Matt. 16: 25; qbit iktalo hokqto, Josh. 

 8: 26; hoke, final word; lauahoke, are 

 many, Matt. 7: 13; ahauchihoke, do 

 find Matt. 7: 14; isht imaholitopahoke, 



Matt. 11: 19, qlhpesahoke it is lawful, 

 Matt. 12: 12; saiyukpa fehnahoke, Matt. 

 17: 5 — hokia — hokon, the, Matt. 17: 2— 

 hona — hosh — hot. 



hoa n ga, v. t., to chew; to chaw; to champ; 

 to masticate; see hopansa. 



hobachahe keyu, a., inimitable. 



hobachi, v. t., to imitate; to liken; to 

 assimilate; to ape; to mimic; to echo; to 

 conform; to depict; to pattern; to jeer; 

 to mock; to reverberate; to shape; to 

 simulate; isht ahobachi, to pattern by 

 means of it; to figure; itihobqchi, to 

 cause to resemble each other or to 

 make them alike; itiobqchi, to compare; 

 sahobqchi, to imitate me; ilahobqchl, v. 

 t., to make like himself, Gen. 1: 26, 27. 



hobachi, v. a. i., to echo; to pattern; to 

 resound; to reverberate. 



hobachi, n., an echo; a mock; mockery. 



hobachi, n., an imitator; a mimic. 



hobachi, a., mock. 



hobachi, n., the act of imitation. 



hobachit, adv. or the v. and conj., same 

 as to imitate, etc. 



hobachit anumpuli, v. t., to mock; to 

 mimic; to talk like another. 



hobachit anumpuli, n., a mocker; a 

 mimicker. 



hobachit holissochi, v. t., to copy; to 

 write like another; to imitate the writ- 

 ing of another. 



hobachit holissochi, n., a copyist. 



hobachit ikbi, v. t. , to make after a pat- 

 tern; to make a likeness; to copy; to 

 assimilate. 



hobachit ikbi, n., one that makes after 

 a pattern; an imitator. 



hobachit miha, v. t., to rehearse. 



hobachit nowa, v. t., to walk like an- 

 other. 



hobak, n., a coward; a poltroon; a das- 

 tard; a eunuch; a gelding; a recreant 

 (a word of peculiar reproach and of- 

 fense). 



hobak, a., pp., castrated; altered; cut; 

 gelded; cowardly. 



hobak chohmi, adv., cowardly. 



hobak ikbi, v. t., to castrate; to geld; to 

 cut; to alter. 



hobak toba, pp., become a gelding, cow- 

 ard, etc.; castrated; gelded. 



hobak toba, a., faint hearted; unmanly. 



hobak tobachi, v. t., to unman. 



