Moo.NEY) GLOSSARY 511 



JIacoii county, North Carolina. See number l;l The niaj) name is probably 

 from the Cherokee ma'ya, wolf. 



At.^-kui.lakull.v — see Atd'-gdtkaM'. 



&'tall — mountain; in the Lower dialect d't/irl, whence the "Ottare" or Upper 

 Cherokee of Adair. The form d'tCM is used only in composition ; a mountain in 

 situ is dliilunpl or ijalu'sX. 



u'tall-gull' — "it climbs the mountain," i. e., "niountain-climljer"; the ginseng plant. 

 Ginseng quuirpiefolium; from d'Idfi, mountain, and (julY, "it climbs" (habitually); 

 tstWii' or IsVi', "lam climbing." Also called in the sacred formulas, Ydn'wl 

 Usdi', "Little Man." See number 126. 



a'tJllulil' — unfinished, premature, unsuccessful; whence nialu'ti, "it is not yet time." 



.\ta'lunti'skl — a chief of the .\rkansas Cherokee about 1818, who had originally emi- 

 grated from Tennessee. The name, commonly spelled Tolhmteeskee, Taluntiski, 

 Tallotiskee, Tallotuskee, etc., denotes one who throws some living oljject from a 

 l)lace, as an enemy from a precijjice. See number 100 for instance. 



A'tarl— see d'tdri. 



iltilsl' (or ("((("(.stV, in a dialectic form) — a war club. 



atatsiuTskl — stinging; literally, "heatings" (habitually). 



A'tht'nuwa' — "Tl.Vnuwit hole"; the Cherokee name of Chattanooga, Tennessee, (see 

 Tsatdnu'gl) originally applied to a bluff on the south side of the Tenne.ssee river 

 at the foot of the present Market street. See number 124. 



A'tsI — the Cherokee name of .lohn Arch, one of the earliest native writers in the 

 Sequoya characters. The word is simply an attempt at the English name Arch. 



atsi'la — fire; in the Lower dialect, atsi'ra. 



Atsil'-dihye'gl — "Fire Carrier"; apparently the Cherokee name for the will-of-the- 

 wisp. See page 335. As is usually the case in Cherokee compounds, the verbal 

 form is plural ("it carries fires"); the singular form is ahye'gl. 



atsil'-suii'tl (abbreviated Uil'-sdntl) — fleabane (Erigeron canadense); the name sig- 

 nifies "material with which to make fire," from atsi'la, fire, and gasunn, 

 {gatsHntl or gatluntl), material with which to make something; from ga^Cin'sk& 

 (or gatliin'skd), " I make it." The plant is also called ihyd'ga. See number 126. 



Atsil'-tluntu't.sl — "Fire panther." A meteor or comet. See notes to numljer 9. 



Atsi'la- wa'I — -"Fire "; a mountain, sometimes known as Rattlesnake knob, about 



two miles northeast of Cherokee, Swain county. North Carolina. See number 

 122. 



a'tsIniV — cedar; cf. IMuscogee, acltena or auchenau. 



A'tslnit'-k'ta'ufi — "Hanging cedar place"; from a'tshiii', cedar, and k'tai'iu, "where 

 it (long) hangs down"; a Cherokee name for the old Taskigi town on Little 

 Tennessee river in Monroe county, Tennessee. See number 105. 



atsi'ra — see atsi'la. 



Atsuii'sttl'ti'yl (abbreviated Alsun'sld'li') — "Fire-light place," (cf. atsil-s{ifl''tl), 

 referring to the " tire-hunting" method of killing deer in the river at night. The 

 proper form for Chestatee river, near Dahlouega, in Lumpkin county, Georgia. 



Attakullakulla — see AUi-gdfkCdd.'. 



Swa' — see iXmiX'. 



awa'hill — eagle; particularly Aqiiila chrijsxlm, distinguished as the "pretty-feathered 

 eagle." 



a'wl' — deer; also sometimes written and pronounced, dlidrvt'; the name is sometimes 

 applied to the large horned beetle, the " flying stag" of early writers. 



a'wl'-ahanu'lahl — goat; literally, "bearded deer." 



a'wI'-aktiV — "deer eye"; the Rndheckia or black-eyed Su.«an. 



a'wl'-ahyeli'skl — "deer mocker"; the deer bleat, a sort of whistle used by hunters 

 to call the doe by imitating the cry of the fawn. 



