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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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oka toba, a., watery. 



oka tobli, v. t., to launch; to push into 

 the water. 



oka tobli, n., a launch. 



oka umba, okumba, n., rainwater. 



oka wisakachi, v. a. i., to wave in small 

 waves; sinti at ayakma oka yat wisakachi. 



oka wisakachi, pp., made to wave. 



oka yanaHipalhki, n., a rapid; rapids; 

 a torrent. 



Okahpa, n., the name of a tribe called 

 Quapaw. 



Okahpa okhina, n., the Arkansas River. 



okaiya, see oka kaiya. 



okak, n., a swan. 



okak ushi, n., a young swan; a cygnet; 

 a swan's egg. 



okaloli, v. t. , to twist and break bushes, 

 as a bull with his horns. 



okami, v. t., to wash the face, i. e., one's 

 own face; okamali, I wash my face. 



okamichi, v. t., to wash the face of an- 

 other; alia ya 71 okamichili, I wash the 

 child's face. 



okashalayi; oka shalali, v. t., to wallow; 

 to besmear, 2 Sam. 20: 12. 



[okataktak, n., the shitepoke; the 

 American green heron.— H. S. H.] 



okatonoli, v. a. L, to welter. 



okatula, v. a. i., to settle; to sink to the 

 bottom in a fluid; to fall in water; to 

 set; to go down, as the sun. 



okachi, v. t., to water; to let into the 

 water, John 20: 6 [?]; pass., ulhkachi, 

 to be watered or soaked; from oka, 

 John 21: 6; Matt. 4: 18; 13: 47; cast 

 into (the sea); Matt. 17:27; seeokkachi. 



okataha, v. a. i., to descend, Josh. 7:5; 

 Gen. 24:45; okattahha, afternoon; ok- 

 atahaka, descent, Deut. 9: 21; see John 

 6: 16. 



okatanowa, v. a. i., to descend, Luke 

 19: 37. 



okattula, v. t., v. a. i., to fall into the 

 water; to plunge into water or any 

 liquid; pinti at bila kia pishukchi kia 

 okattula chatak; to set, as the sun, Josh. 

 10: 27; see okatula. 



okattula, n., a plunge; a fall into a 

 liquid; one who falls. 



okbano, would God, Josh. 7:7; see hok- 

 bano. 



okbal, adv., in the rear; behind; back- 

 wards; hind; hinder; see ukbal and 

 ulbal; obalaka, rearward. 



okbal, n., the rear. 



okbilhha, v. i., to sink in water like a 

 boat ready to fill, Luke 5: 7. 



okbililli, a., in water swimming deep. 



okbillichi, v. t., to make it swimming 

 deep. 



okbileli, v. a. i., the eyes stand out, Ps. 

 73: 7. 



okbusha, pp., wrung out; water wrung 

 out. 



okbushli, v. t., to wring out water; 

 nafoka okbushli; nafohka aiokbusha. 



okcha, v. a. i., to wake; to awake; v. n., 

 to be awake; to cheer; to rouse; to 

 watch; nasi tuk osh okcha. 



okcha, a., pp., awake; aroused; awaked; 

 enlivened; excited; flush; incited; in- 

 spirited ; refreshed ; roused ; stimulated ; 

 vigilant; vivid; vivacious; volatile; 

 wakeful; wakened ikokcho, a, un- 

 awaked. 



okcha, n., wakefulness; recreation; re- 

 freshment; vigilance; vivacity; watch. 



okchachi, v. t., to awaken, John 11: 11. 



okchaha, pp., hoed; broken up, as land; 

 cut up, as grass, with a hoe. 



okchaha, n., the ground thus hoed. 



okcha n k, n., a muskmelon. 



okcha n k balama, n., a muskmelon. 



okcha n k holba, n., a cucumber. 



okchakalbi, a., blue; purple; greenish; 

 okchakolba, probably from okchako and 

 holba. 



okcha n ki, a., green, as newly cut wood, 

 not as a color; raw, 1 Sam. 2: 15; fresh; 

 rare; crude; alive, as a tree; unripe, as 

 fruit; live; nipi okchanki, iti okchanki, 

 shukshi at okcha n ki, takkon at okcha n ki; 

 iti at okchanki on, Luke 23: 31. In 

 2 Sam. 18: 14 okchanki is applied to 

 Absalom, as a man alive, but it is usu- 

 ally applied to things, as iti okcha n M, 

 nipi okcha n ki. 



okcha n ki, v. n., to be green, raw, fresh, 

 unripe; okchanki, v. a. i. to live, as a 

 tree; okcha n ki, n., rawness. 



okchakkuchi, v. n., to be green, or 

 greenish, like an unripe peach. 



okchako, n., blue. 



okchako, a., blue. 



okchako, okchakko. v. n., to be blue. 



okchako, pp., dyed blue; colored blue. 



okchakochi, v. t., to blue; to color blue; 

 to dve blue. 



