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A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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pula; applied to the leaves of a book 

 turned down at the corners; pulakachi 

 pi. 



puli, v. t. pi., to fold; to double over 

 more than once; to roll up; to plait. 



puli,n., a folder; one who folds, doubles, 

 etc. ; a plaiter. 



puskus, n., a babe; a baby; an infant; a 

 papoose (a familiar word). 



puskusechi; Uepuskusechi, v. t., to render 

 himself childish ; a. , childish ; n. , dotage. 



pushahchih, v. a. i., like potqnno, jealous. 



pushahollo, n., a heathen priest's sacred 

 bag. 



pushechi, v. t., to flour; to pulverize; to 

 beat fine; to powder; to grind fine; to 

 reduce to a powder; to convert into 

 flour; to triturate. 



pushechi, n., the one who flours. 



pushi, pp., floured; pulverized; beaten 

 fine; powdered fine; ground fine; tritu- 

 rated. 



pushi, a., fine, as flour or sand ; ltd -ft pushi. 



pushi, n., flour; fineness; meal. 



pushka, v. t., to scratch with the nails 

 of the paw, or the nails of the hand; 

 kalqffi, sing., to scratch. 



pushka, n., a scratcher. 



pushkano, v. a. i., to crave flesh for food; 

 to long for meat. 



pushnayo, impushnayo (q. v.), n., the 

 master of an animal; ofi impushnayo, 

 Matt. 15: 27; isuba impushnayo. 



puta, putta, a., all; every one; every, 

 Luke 3: 5, and all of each kind, giving 

 them all the plural number; ilaiyuka 

 pula, every kind, Matt. 13: 47. It may 

 be used for a collective and a distribu- 

 tive plural, hatak putta ka, men, Matt. 

 10: 17; putta is used to express the plural 

 number; ilqppa puta ka, these, Matt. 1: 

 20; ahekajnda, debts, Matt. 6: 12; hatak 

 nowqt anya puta kqt ilbqsha tok; hatak. 

 ohoyo, alia puta moma hosh mintashke, 

 men, women, children, distributively, 

 all do ye come; hatak puta kqt, men, 

 Matt. 13: 25. 



puta, v. n., to be all; eputa hokqto, we all 

 the ones; poyuta, pro. form. 



puta, putta, n., all, as amputa, my all, 

 or all mine; arnputtah, I have all or 

 many; aputa, Matt. 8: 17. 



putalechi, v. t., to extend to all; putale- 



chit ishi, take all; hatak, ohoyo, qlla 



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putalechit inhollashke, he loves them all, 

 i. e., the men, women, and children. 



putali, a., all; the whole without excep- 

 tion. 



putali, v. a. i.,tqmaha holihta putalit a^yqt, 

 city to city; all of them, 2 Chron. 30: 10. 



putta, see puta. 



sa, per. pro., 1st per. sing., I, before neu- 

 ter verbs, as sanusi, I sleep; salaksha, 

 I sweat; sqlli, I die. 



sa, per. pro., obj. case, 1st per. sing., me, 

 before active transitive verbs; sapesa, 

 he sees me; sachumpa, he buys me. 



sa, per. pro., 1st per. sing., I, before pas- 

 sive verbs; sanqla, I am wounded. 



sa, pos. pro., 1st per. sing., my, prefixed 

 to the names of the body and its mem- 

 bers, and a few other words, as sa- 

 nushkobo, myhead; sabaiyi, mynephew; 

 sachunkqsh, my heart; sa is sometimes 

 written s, sq, sai, si; saiyimmi; siachuk- 

 ma; sqtekchi, my wife, Luke 1: 18; chik- 

 saiyimmo, Luke 1: 20; saiyukpa Matt. 

 17: 5. 



sa n , pre. per. pro., before verbs in the 



' neg. form, as iksanJiollo; see san, sum, 



gam; a, am, an, am, are found in the 



positive forms (q. v. ) ; issa n hashofi, Matt. 



8: 2. 



sachakla, n., inside ridge of the back 

 bone near the shoulders. 



sahnoyechi, a., old, protracted form of 

 asanochi. 



sak, n., the noise when striking a solid 

 substance. 



sakachi, n. sing., a thump. 



sakaha, v. t. pi., to strike, as with an 

 ax; to thump; to rap or tap anything 

 hard or solid; to fillip. 



sakaha, n., a thumping; a striking; the 

 noise made by the blows of an ax or 

 maul. 



sakahanli, v. t., to hack. 



sakakachi, pi., noise made with an ax 

 or maul; sakakahanchi, freq. form. 



sakalichi, v. t. sing., to thump; to rap; 

 to strike; to make a noise by striking 

 with a hammer, an ax, or the fist, etc. ; 

 sakalihinchi, freq. 



sakalichi, n., a blow; one who strikes; 

 a striker. 



sakki, v. t., to overtake, Josh. 2: 5; to 

 come up with; to overhaul; echisak- 

 kikamo, we overtook you. 



