5'il) MYTHS OK THK CHEROKEE [kth.ann.)9 



gi'rl' — see yitl'. 



Gisehfifi'yl — "Where the female lives,'' from aip'sl, female, and y'l, the lociative. 

 A place on Tuekasegee river, a short distaiu'e al)ove Brysoii City, Swain county, 

 North Carolina. See nnmber 122. 



gitlu' — hair (tipper dialect); in the Middle an<l Lower dialects, ijilniY. 



gitsu' — see gitlu'. 



Gl.\ss, The — see Ta'gimdilii'. 



GonoMA — A Lower Cherokee chief in 1()S4; the form cannot he iileMtilied. See 

 page 31. 



GoiNG-sx.\KE — see I'liddi'inn''/. 



GoRHALEKE — a Lower Cherokee chief in 1684; the form cannot he identified. See 

 page 31. 



Great island — see Aiiuiiu'l-e'tpni. 



Gregory' bald — see Tsixtu'ifi. 



Guachoule — see GfAXit.E. 



GuAQUin ( Walcili) — a town in the Cherokee country, visited by De Soto in 1540, and 

 again in 1567 by Pardo, who calls it Agnaquiri (see pages 25 and 28). The name 

 may have a connection with iragull', " whippoorwill," or with ■ii-)in1'gni, 

 "foam." 



GiASULA — see Guaxule. 



Gi'AsiLi — see Guaxule. 



GuAXULE — a town in the Cherokee country, visited Ijy De Soto in 1540; variously 

 spelled in the narratives, Guasili, Guachoule, Gua.sula, Guaxnle, Quaxule, etc. 

 It was proliably about at Nacoochee moinid, in White county, Georgia. It has 

 been suggested that the Spaniards may have changed the Indian name to I'esemble 

 that of a town in Spain. See pages 26 and 194. 



gii'daye'wii — "I have sewed myself together"; "I am .sewing," tsii/f'irid'; "I am 

 sewing myself together," gudayeimu. See number 31. 



gfigwg' (or g'gwe') — the quail or partridge; the name is an onomatope. 



gugwt5'-ulasu'la — "partridge mocca,'<in," irom giigwi-' or g'gwi', partri<lge, and nlusii/n, 

 moccasin or shoe; the ladyslipjier {Cifpripedium). 



Giihlhi'yl (aVjbreviated Gi'ddlii', or Cnrdhi', in the Lower dialect) — "(h'lla'lil jilace," 

 so called from an unidentified spring plant eaten as a salad 1 ly the Cherokee. The 

 name of two or more places in the old Cherokee country; one about Currahee 

 mountain in Habersham county, Georgia, the other on CuUowhee river, an upper 

 branch of Tuekasegee, in Jackson county. North Carolina. Cinrahee Pick was 

 a noted chief about the j'ear 1820. 



Gu'lani'yl — a Cherokee and Natchez settlement formerly about the junction of Brass- 

 town creek with Hiwassee river, a short distance above Murphy, in Cherokee 

 county. North Carolina. The etymology of the word is doubtful. 



gul6' — acorn. 



gulf'-diska'nihT' — the turtle-dove; literally, "it cries, or mourns, for acorns," from 

 gidc', acorn, and diskdnihY, "it cries for them" [di-, plural prefix,-/!/, haliitual 

 sufflx). The turtle-dove feeds upon acorns and its cry somewhat resembles the 

 name, gide'. 



gule'gl — "climber," from tsilahV, "I climli" (second person. liTlidiT; thinl ])erson, 

 gid.ahl'); the blacksnake (Bascamon coiislrictor). 



Gul'kala'skl — An earlier name for Tsumi'ld)iAn'sk1, q. v. 



gCil'kwa'gl — seven; also the mole-cricket {Gri/llotalpa). See nmnV>er 50. 



gurkwa'gine(-I — seventh; from gufku'dg"/, .seven. 



Gi'ils.^dihl' (or OMtsadihVt) — a masculine personal name, of uncertain etymology. 



GrMLo<; — see Tsilnhi'hl. 



gunfthi'ta — long. 



