BYINOTON] 



A DICTIONARY OF THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE 



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tukafa, tokafa, v. a. i., to discharge; to 



go off; to fire, as a gun; to shoot; to 



explode; to pop. 

 tukafa, pp., fired; discharged; shot; 



ontukafa, shot; fired on. 

 tukafa,n., an explosion; a shoot; iktakafo, 



a., unshot. 

 tukafa achafa, n., a charge; a fire; a 



load, 

 tukakosh, because, Matt. 16: 8. 

 tukali, tokali, n., pi., to discharge, 

 tukali, pp., discharged, 

 tukali, n., a shooting; a discharge; a 



volley, 

 tukali, see tokali. 

 tukalichi, see tokalichi. 

 tukalichi, v. t., to discharge. 

 tukatok,had, Matt. 14:3; 16:5; 1 Kings 



11:10; was, 2 Kings 9: 15, 16; Josh. 2: 6. 

 tukaffi, v. t. sing., to fire off; to fire; to 



discharge, 

 tukaffi, n., one who fires a gun. 

 tukbi, a., blunt; pp., blunted, 

 tukbi, v. n., to be blunt. 

 tukbichi, v. t., to make it blunt; to blunt, 

 tuklo, a., two; double, II; 2; n., a pair; 



a couple; a brace; a yoke, Matt. 11: 2; 



14: 17. 

 tuklo, n., twain; a span; a deuce, a term 



used in gaming; tuklokma, Matt. 18: 16; 



tuklokmat,when there are two. 

 tuklo, v. n., to be two; ishtuklo; ita- 



tuklo, to be two together, or both, Matt. 



4:21; 10: 29; itatukloli, I together with 



him, two; itatuklo, Matt. 17: 3; ilita- 



tuklo, Matt. 17: 27; Josh. 9: 3; toyuklo, 



pro. form, 

 tuklo, v. a. i., to make two; to be two, 



as etuklo, we two; itatuklo, and, in Che- 

 mis akosh nakfish Chan itatuklotok, 



James and his brother John, Matt. 



10:2; Mar'kll: 11. 

 tu n klo, being two, or the two; both, Matt. 



9: 17; 15: 14. 

 tuklochi, v. t., to do it twice, or to do two; 



to make two; itatuklinchi, to double; 



tuklolichilahe keyu, I can not do both 



things; to "two," literally, Matt. 6: 24; 



to take two, Matt. 10: 10. 

 tuklohila, n., a jig. 

 tuklohilahila, v. a. i., to jig. 

 tuklokia, even two. 

 tuklokia atampa, n., plurality; more 



than two. 



tuklona, tuklo ona, v. a. i., to reach to 

 two; to extend to two; even two; tukok, 

 cont. for tukokma; kaniona ishbolitukok, 

 perhaps you laid it somewhere. 



tuklampuli, n., a cobweb; see chuklam- 

 I hi Hi. 



tukma, written as one word in the defi- 

 nite form of recent past tense, sub. 

 mood, obj. case, but after nouns should 

 be written as two words, tuk ma; tuk 

 .mat, same in nom. case; tuk okma; tuk 

 okmat. 



tukohmi, see tokomi. 



tuktua, v. a. i., to cluck. 



tulhpakali, a., dim; obscure; hidden; 

 applied to the eyesight, which, being 

 dim, does not clearly behold objects. 



tulhpakali, v. n., to be dim or obscure; 

 tanampo apisa pisalikma apisa ygt tulh- 

 pakali. 



tulli, pi., tolupli, sing., v. a. i., to frisk; 

 to jump; to bound; to canter; to 

 prance; to romp; to skip; to spring; 

 to vault. 



tulli, n., a frisker. 



tullichi, v. t., to canter; to cause to leap, 

 etc. 



tullit fulokachi, v. a. i., to caper. 



tullit fulokachi, n., a caper. 



tulolichi, v. a. i., to walk with short 

 steps like a duck-legged hen, or a child 

 when it first begins to walk. 



tulak, n., soot. 



tulak chito, a., sooty. 



tulak isht lusa, pp., sooted. 



tulak isht lusachi, v. t., to soot. 



tulak laua, a., sooty. 



tula n koba, tula n kobi, a., brown; orange 

 red, like soot. 



tuma, adv., probably; yqmohmi tuma. 



tumashke; hotumashke, Matt. 17, 26; 

 ihinma tumashke, Acts 11, 18; chintuma, 

 hetuma, in the future. 



tupashali, n., the long-legged spider, 

 called "grand daddy long legs." 



tu n stubi, tu n subi,n., a fishhawk; a blue 

 hawk. 



tu n sha, tusha; see tushli. 



tushafa, v. a. L, to split off; tali tushafat 

 itula, the stone split off and fell. 



tushafa, pp., split off. 



tushafa, n., a piece; a fraction; a part; 

 a scrap; a slice, Matt. 17: 27; paska 

 tushafa sapeta, give me a piece of bread. 



