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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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isi chufakni, n., a spike buck; a buck 



about two years of age. 

 isi folaktuli, n., a forked-horn deer, 



more than two years old. 

 isi hakshup, see, isakshup. 

 isi humma tek, n., a hind, 

 isi intakkonlushi, n., a species of wild 



plum, 

 isi kosoma, n., a goat; a fetid deer; 



a chamois, 

 isi kosoma nakni, n., a he- goat; a 



buck, 

 isi kosoma nukshopa, n., the ibex, 

 isi kosoma tek, n., the female goat; a 



she-goat, 

 isi kosomushi, n., a kid. 

 isi kosomushicheli, v. t., to kid. 

 isi lahpitta, n., a stag; a full-horned 



buck, 

 isi lapish fUaniminchi, n., trochings; 



the small branches on the top of a 



deer's head, 

 isi nakni, n., a buck, 

 isi nakni afarnmi tuchina, n., a sorrel; 



a buck of the third year, 

 isi nakni hakshup, n., a buck's skin, 

 isi nakni humma, n., a stag, 

 isi nakni lapish falaktuchi, n.,apricket; 



a buck in his second year, 

 isi nia, n., deer's tallow. 

 isi nia pichelichi, n., name of a bird 



called the whistling plover, 

 isi nipi, n., venison, 

 isi tek, n., a doe. 

 isi ushi, isushi, n., a fawn; a young 



deer, 

 isi ushi cheli, v. t., to fawn. 

 isikkopa, issikkopa, n., torment; dis- 

 tress; misery. 

 isikkopa, issikkopa, pp., tormented; 



accursed; cursed; punished; racked, 



Matt. 4: 24; 8: 6; 15: 22. 

 isikkopa, a., miserable, 

 isikkopalechi, v. t. and caus., to tor- 

 ment; to cause torment. 

 isikkopalechi, n., a tormentor, 

 isikkopali, v. t., to distress; to torment 



to chasten; to chastise; to curse; to 



punish; to rack; to persecute, Matt. 



10: 23; ishtissikkopali, tribulation, Matt. 



13: 21; ilisikkopali, to torment oneself. 

 isikkopali, n., a tormentor; torment; 



ilisikkopali, a self-tormentor; self-tor- 

 ment. 



isikkopalit abi, v. t., to massacre, 

 isikkopalit abi, n., a massacre, 

 isikkopalit pelichi, v. t., to tyrannize, 

 isikopa, v. t., v. a. i., to cram; to glut- 



tonize. 

 isikopa, n., a glutton; debauchery, 

 isikopa, a., gluttonous; v. n., to be glut- 

 tonous. 

 isikopa shali, a., gluttonous to excess. 

 isikopa shah, n., a great glutton; a 



voluptuary, 

 isikopali, v. t., to raven, 

 isikopali, a., ravenous. 

 isimi n lusak, n., the devil's shoestring 



(a plant), 

 isito, n., a pumpkin; a squash; a pom- 



pion. 

 isito api, n., a pumpkin vine, 

 isito holba, n., a squash, 

 isito honni, n., cooked pumpkin; stewed 



pumpkin, 

 isito ibish, n., the end of the pumpkin 



where the stem grows. 

 isito ikfuka, n., the meat part of the 



pumpkin. 

 isito lakna, n., a yellow pumpkin; a 



ripe pumpkin, 

 isito sala, n. , a hard-shelled pumpkin. 

 iskali, n. (from escalin), a dime; a nine- 

 pence; a bit; a 125-cent piece of money; 



a drachm; a penny, Mark 12: 15. 

 iskali achaf a, n. , a ninepence; one bit. 

 iskatani, a., small, 

 iskatani, v. n., to be small, 

 iskatanichi, v. t. caus., to make small; 



to lessen; to retrench, 

 iskatanusi, a., very small; quite small, 

 iskatanusi, v. n., to be very small. 

 iskatinosi, adj., smallish, Matt. 7: 13; 



na hishunluk iskatinosi, a mote, Matt. 



7: 3, 4. 

 iskif a , iski n f a (Longtown form) , n. , an ax. 

 iskifa ahalupa, n., the edge of an ax. 

 iskif a chiluk, n., the eye of an ax. 

 iskifa chushak, n., the head of an ax. 

 iskifa halupa, n., a sharp ax. 

 iskifa nishkin, n., the eye of an ax. 

 iskifa nushkobo, n., the head of an ax. 

 iskifa patha, n. , a broad ax; a carpenter's 



ax. 

 iskifa ulhpi, iskifaiulhpi, n., an ax 



helve, 

 iskifa wishakchi, n., the bit of an ax. 

 iskif api, n., an ax helve. 



