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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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kanohmi, a., how many, Matt. 16: 9; 

 some; several, Luke 5: 18; various, used 

 to make the plural number, as hatak 

 kanohmi, men, Josh. 7: 2; hatak kanohmi 

 hosh minti. 



kanohmi, v. n., to be some. 



kanohmi kia, howsoever. 



kanomi, n., relations; kindred; used with 

 prefix pronouns, as akanomi, chi^ka- 

 nomi, fakanomi, etc.; iti n kanomi, kins- 

 folk; mutual relations. 



kanomi, a. , related ; inJcanomi, related to 

 him; itinkanomi, related to each other. 



kanomi, v. n., to be related; hashitin- 

 kanomi, you are related to each other. 



kanomona, a. (from kanomi and ona), 

 several; many, John 2: 12; some; sun- 

 dry. 



kanomona, v. n., to be numerous or 



many ; to amount to several. 

 kanomona, n., a number; a parcel;, a 



quantity, 

 kanompit, Matt. 13: 36; see kanon for 



the correct orthography of kanompit. 

 kanomusi, kanimusi, a., very few; very 



little; a few; a little, Josh. 7: 3. 

 kanomusi, v. n., to be small, little, etc. 

 kanomusi, n., a small quantity; a small 



number; a pittance, Matt. 15: 34. 

 kantak, n. , the kind of brier from which 



bread is made; a smilax. 

 kantak api, n., a bramble; a brier. 

 kantak paska, n., kantak bread; brier- 

 root bread, 

 kantali, v. a. i., to press; to crowd, like 



the houses in a city, or people, Mark 



5: 27, 31; see akantali. 

 kanumpa, n., name of a weed which 



grows in low grounds, 

 kapali, v. t., to hold in the mouth; to 



put into one's own mouth; hakchuma 



kapali, he holds tobacco in his mouth, 

 kapali, pp., put in the mouth, 

 kapali, n., that which is put in the 



mouth, as a bridle bit. 

 kapali isht talakchi, n., bridle reins; 



a rein; see isuba kapali, etc. 

 kapali isht talakchi nushkobo foka, 



n., headstall. 

 kapalichi, v. t., to put into the mouth 



of another; pi. kapa. 

 kapassa, a., cold; icy; frosty; fresh; 



frigid; gelid; phlegmatic; raw; re- 

 84339°— Bull. 46 — 15— l 5 



pulsive; rigorous; wintry; lukji kapassa 

 chohmi, clay cold. 



kapassa, v. n., to be cold. This does 

 not mean the sensation of cold; hochuk- 

 wa means to feel cold, to experience 

 cold, as a sensation. 



kapassa, n., coldness; a cold; frigidity; 

 iciness; strangeness. 



kapassa, pp., cooled; damped; re- 

 freshed; tali at kapassat taha. 



kapassa, v. a. i., to cool. 



kapassa fehna, a., hard; very cold. 



kapassachi, a., cool; kucha kapassachi, 

 cool weather. 



kapassachi, v. n., to be cool. 



kapassachi, v. t. , to cool; to make cool; 

 to refrigerate; to shadow; to shade, or 

 to refresh by shade. 



kapassalli, v. t., to cool; to refresh; to 

 refrigerate; umba kakosh kucha yan ka- 

 passachi, the rain cools the weather. 



kapash, n. ; uski kapash, cane tongs; a 

 large cane is bent double; luak isht 

 kapash, fire tongs (not used). 



kapko, n., a large hickory nut. 



kapucha, n., ball sticks, such as the 

 Choctaw use at ball plays. 



kapulhachi, v. a. i., to crunch. 



kapuli, see kahpuli. 



kapuli, v. a. i., to champ. 



kapuli, n., a champer. 



kapulichi, v. a. L, to champ. 



kapun, ii., a shagbark hickory nut. 



kapun api, n., a shagbark hickory. 



kasali, kasalichi, v. t., to strike with 

 a stick. 



kasmo, kosmo, n., a turkey-feather 

 shawl or robe worn by the ancient 

 Choctaw. 



kasolichi, v. t. sing., to thump; alia 

 nushkobo yan kasolichi,' to thump the 

 child's head with the thumb and fin- 

 ger. 



kasuha, pi., to thump. 



kash, kash, immediate past tense arti- 

 cle and rel. pro. ; see ash, hash, chash, 

 (which is remote past tense, ) etc., adv., 

 last; late; lately, Matt. 2:21; puta kash, 

 the said, i. e., plural, Matt. 8: 16; 11: 

 20; Compounds: kashano—kashato — 

 kashin—kashinli, Matt. 5: 25— kashke— 

 kashket, rel. pro., that which; the same 

 that; as all kashket, that is what I said; 

 this form is not much used; it is called 



