514 MVI'HS OK THK CHEROKEK |]:tii. ann.19 



dttgan'tCi — "li(? luakos it rain"; I'i-dhi <if/(i'sb'i, "it is raiiiiiij;," (kju'ik'i, "it has 1h'j;iiti 

 to rain"; a small variety of lizard whose cry is said to i)resa,ire rain. It is also 

 ealled a'lilf/aiiti'uk't, "they make it rain" (plnral form), or "rain-niakcr. " See 

 number 59. 



dagul'kd — the Amerii-an white-fronted goose (Aiisi-r atljifiims </iiinliill). The name 

 may be an onomatope. See number (i. 



digu'nfl — the fresh water mussel; also a variety of face pimples. 



Daguna'hi — "JIussel place," from (h'lyii'nn, mussel, and In, looative. The Muscle 

 shoals on Tetinessee river, in northwestern Alabama. It was sometimes called 

 also simply 7>u's((im!M/7'?/(, "Shoals place." Cf. V'sUXna'ti. 



Dilgu'nawe'iahl — "Mussel-liver place," from ddgiYxu, mussel, uwe'la, liver, and lii, 

 locative; the Cherokee name for the site of Nashville, Tennessee. No rea.son 

 can now be given for the name. 



Dahloneg-\ — A town in Lumpkin County, (jeorgia, near which the first gold was 

 mined. A mint was established there in 183S. The name is from the Cherokee 

 dala'nige'i, j'ellow, whence iiti'l('i-<lii/n'iii<ie'i, "yellow money," i. e.,gold. 



daksawa'ihii — "he is shedding tears." 



dilkwi' — a mythic great fisli; also the wliale. See number 68. 



Dakwd'I — "Ditkwa place," from a tradition of a. dCitwd' in the river at that point. A 

 former Cherokee settlement, known to the traders as Toqua or Toco, on Little 

 Tennessee river, about the moutli of Toco creek in Monroe county, Tennessee. 

 See number 68. A similar name and tradition attaches to a spot on the French 

 Broad river, about six miles above the Warm springs, in Buncombe county, 

 North Carolina. See nundjer ll'L'. 



dakwa'nitlastesti — " I shall have them on my legs for garters"; from anilln'sli \ plural 

 dinitla'sli), garter; (/-, initial jilural; nkira, first person particle; and f.v/?, future 

 suffix. See number 77. 



da'lIkstiV — "vomiter," from dagik' Mihu' , "I am vomiting," daliksW, "hev(jniits" 

 (habitually); the form is plural. Tlie .spreading adder (Heterodon), al.so some- 

 times called kwdndCiija'lih, a word of uncertain etymology. 



Da''nagasta — lorDa'' ndin't-ijiUln'i/n, "Sharp-war," i.e. " Eager- warrior " ; a Cherokee 

 woman's name. 



Da''na\va-(a)sa'tsuii'yi "War ford," from di/navm, war, and «S(('(.si'(?7/;/«, a crossing- 

 place or ford. A ford on Cheowa river about three miles below Eobl>insville, 

 in Graham county. North Carolina. See number 122. 



Danda'ginu' — "Two looking at each other," from detsi'gdnu', "I am looking at 

 him." A former Cherokee settlement, commonly known aa Lookout Mountain 

 town, on Lookout Mountain creek, near the present Trenton, Dade county, 

 Georgia. One of the Chickamauga towns (see Td'kama'gi), so called on account 

 of the appearance of the mountains facing each other across the Tennessee river 

 at Chattanooga. 



Da'si'giya'gi — an old masculine personal name, of doubtful etymology, but connnonly 

 rendered by the traders "Shoe-boots," possibly referring to some peculiar st\'le 

 of moccasin or leggin. A cliief known to the whites as Slioe-boots is mentioned 

 in the Revolutionary records. t!hief Lloyd Welch, of the eastern band, was 

 known in the tribe as Da'si'giya'gi and the same name is now used by the East 

 Cherokee as the equivalent of the name Lloyd. 



Da'skwituii'yl — " Rafters place," from duxkii'Mu'l, "rafters," and yl, locative. A 

 former settlement on Tusquittee creek, near Hayesville, in Clay I'ounty, North 

 Carolina. 



dasiiil'titll — ant; dasiin'tun. (ilotsitn'xkl, "stinging ant," the large red cow-ant (Mi/r- 

 ?H.«vi?), also called sometimes, on account of its hard body-case, ni'iu'i/Ktiii'ii'i, 

 "stone-clad," after the faliulous monster. See number 67. 



Datle'y;tsta'i — "Where they fell down," a point on Tuckasegee river, a short dis- 

 tance above Webster, in Jackson county. North ('arolina. For tradition see 

 number 122. 



