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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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okishko, n., a drunkard; a tippler; a 

 bibber. 



okishko, n., intemperance; drunkenness. 



okishko fehna, v. t., to carouse. 



okishko laua, n., a row. 



okishko ma n ya, n., a carousal; a row; 

 a drunken frolic. 



okishko ma n ya, v. t., to have a drunken 

 frolic. 



okishko shali, n., a sot; a great drunk- 

 ard; an habitual drunkard; a bibber; 

 a tippler; a soaker; a toper. 



okisht alhpisa, n., a gallon. 



okkachi, okachi, v. t., to wet; to soak; 

 to set down into water, Luke 5:4; to 

 soften; to steep, 1 Sam. 14: 27; oka- 

 hanchi freq. ; pass, ulhkachi 



okkachi, n., a soaker. 



okkattaha, v. a. i., to descend; to go 

 down, Josh. 10: 11; hqshi at okkattaha, 

 the sun descends, as at 2 p. m. ; hqsJii at 

 okkqttahat akkia, the sun descends and 

 goes down, as at 4 p. m. ; okkqttahakqt ia, 

 the descent goes. 



okkattahaka, n., the side of a hill; the 

 foot of a hill; under a hill; the slope; 

 okkattahaka hikia na qbeli, I killed him 

 when standing at, etc. 



okkattahakaia, n., a declivity. 



okkattahakachi, v. t., to slope. 



okko, int. of surprise, sorrow, and regret. 



okkohonlih, v. a. i., to have a Roman 

 nose. 



okla, n., a people; a tribe; a nation; cit- 

 izens; folks; persons; men; population, 

 2 Sam. 24: 2; a tongue; a multitude, 

 Matt. 8: 1; inhabitants; they, i. e., 

 mankind, animals, and things, John 1: 

 37 (when employed in this manner as 

 a pronoun the particle pronoun t is 

 omitted); a community; a party; a 

 region; applied to boats, as ishtiqt okla, 

 Luke 5: 7; Spani okla, Spanish people; 

 people of Spain; Spaniards; Milihiokla, 

 American people; people of America; 

 Americans. In this way it corresponds 

 to national adjectives, as French, etc. ; 

 Pqsk okla, Bread people, Pascagolians 

 [Pascagoula] ; Chahta okla talala, the 

 one nation, or the single tribe of Choc- 

 taw; hatak qpi humma, okla taloha puta, 

 all Indian tribes; hatak toll okla, a ball- 

 playing people; oklaibhak, their hands, 

 Matt. 15: 2; imokla inholitopa, a., patri- 



otic; okla, following a verb, is dual, as 

 anumpulit oklatok, preceding a verb it is 

 plural; see John 9: 28, 24; oklaachi, 

 they say, i. e., people say; Matt. 11: 

 18; oklai achi, all the people say, i. e., 

 the people say; hatakashosh okla nuMa- 

 kancha, Matt. 8: 27; okla, they, often 

 thus used before verbs; okla qbi tukma, 

 Matt. 17: 23; okla, n., the relatives of 

 a man's wife, and his sister's husband; 

 qmoklama, my people (pi. ); my coun- 

 tryman (sing.); of my wife's family, it 

 is used in the singular number; okla, 

 in the dual number, of persons and 

 things and animals; achit >>l:l<itok, they 

 two said, Matt. 8, 29; neg. form, tashkti 

 ikoklo kinsha /<o«, Josh. 2: 8. 



okla achafa itibi, n., a civil war; imokla 

 achafa intanampi, n., an insurrection. 



okla achafa itibi, v. t., to have a civil 

 war. 



okla ahalaia, a., national; pertaining to 



a people. 

 okla anumpa kobaffi, n., sedition. 

 okla chafa, n., one people; a single tribe; 



countrymen; a fellow citizen. 

 okla chito, okla chinto, n., a multitude, 



Matt, 5: 1; the multitude, Matt. 9: 8; 



a great people, Luke 3, 7 [?]; many; 



great multitudes, Matt. 8:1. 

 okla chito, a., populous. 

 okla iksho, a., without inhabitants; des- 

 olated, 

 okla ilappako 11 , in them, Matt. 13: 15. 

 okla imanukfila, n., their thoughts, 



Matt. 12: 25. 



okla inla, n., a foreign people; foreign- 

 ers. 



okla laua, n., a multitude, Matt. 13: 2; 

 14:5, 14, 15, 19, 22,23. 



okla laua, a., populous. 



okla makali, n., the vulgar. 



okla moma, n., the public; all people; 

 a republic. 



okla moma, a., public. 



okla moma immi, a., belonging to the 



public. 

 oklananikithano,n., gentiles; heathen, 



Matt. 6: 32. 



okla nana i n kaniohmi chito, see nana 



fakaniohmi chito. 

 okla pelichi, n., officers, Josh. 8: 33. 



