MooNKY] GLOSSARY 5:2;i 



HiwiUiSee river in Towns county, (ieorgia. Tlie niunc, coMiniunly writt-n 

 Ktownh and corrupted to Ilifrhtowcr, cannot lie translated and seems not to be 

 of Cherokee origin. A town called Italia, Ytana or Ytava in the DeSoto chron- 

 icles existed in 1540 among the Creeks, apparently on Alabama river. 



Itsil'tl — conimoiily spelled Echota, Chota, Chote, Choquata (misprint), etc; a name 

 occurring in several places In the old Cherokee country: the meaning is lost. 

 The most important .settlement of this name, freijuently distiniruished as Great 

 Echota, was on the south side of Little Tennessee river a short distance below 

 Citico creek in ^lonroe county, Tennessee. It was tlie ancient ca|)ital and sacred 

 "peace town'' of the Xation. Little Echota was on Sautee (i. e., Itm'n) creek, 

 a head stream of the Chattahoochee, west of Clarkesville, (Georgia. New Echota, 

 the capital of the Nation f<.)r some years before the Removal, was established at 

 a spot originally known as Oansu'gt (q. v.) at the junction of the Oostanaula 

 and Conasauga rivers, in Gordon county, Georgia. It was sometimes called 

 Newtown. The old Macedonia mission on Soco creek, of the North ("arolina 

 reservation, is also known as ItsA'tt to the Cherokee, as was also the great 

 Nacoochee mound. See Xa;/ii'lsV. 



Itse'yl — "New green place'' or "Place of fresh green," from itse'hl, " green (jr unripe 

 vegetation," and j/7, the locative; applied more particularly to a tract of ground 

 made green liy fresh-springing vegetation, after having been cleared of timl)eror 

 burned over. A name occurring in several places in the old Cherokee country, 

 variously written Echia, Echoee, Etchowee, and sometimes also falsely rendered 

 "Bi-asstown," from a confusion of hm'yl with untmiyV, "brass." One settle- 

 luent of this name was upon Brasstown creek of Tugaloo river, in Oconee county, 

 South Carolina; another was on Little Tennessee river near tlie present Franklin, 

 ^lacon county, JCorth Carolina, and probably about the junction of Cartoogaja 

 ( /_r<ilii<i-ilsf''i)'i) creek; a third, known to the whites as Brasstown, was on upper 

 Pirasstown creek of Hiwassee river, in Tfiwns county, Georgia. In Cherokee as 

 in most other Indian languages no clear distinction is made between green and 

 blue {siikii'iiKju'l). 



i'ya — pumpkin. 



iya'-iyu'sti — "like a pumpkin." from iiin and iijn'xfi, like. 



iya'-tilwi'skage — "of pumpkin smoothness," from i'ljn, ]iuin])kin, and li'nri'shii/e, 



smc 



)oth. 



J.vcKso.s — see Tsek^slnV. 



Jess.\x — see Tsesa'nl. 



Jesse Reid — see Tsc'at-Ska'Ist. 



Jo.\NN.\ B.\LD — see Diyd' hall' tjl. 



Jo.\R.\, Ju-\u.\ — ^see Ani'-Smoa'U. 



John — see Tsa'nl. 



John A.x — see ItCiyiVndlu. 



JoLLV, John — see Ahu'lv.de'yl. 



Jf.VALUsKA — see Txiinii'lfllifiH'x/ct. 



JiTACfi.i.A — see Tsiil'h'ihV. 



ka'gii' — crow; the name is an onomatope. 



Kiigtlii'yl — "Crow i>lace," from kA'yiV, crow and //?, locative. See mimber (v!. 



ka'I — grease, oil. 



Kala'asuii'yl — "Where he fell off," from isUa'ankfi' , "I am falling off," ami //', loca- 

 tive. A cliff near Cold Spring knob, in Swain county, North Carolina. 



Ka'lahu' — ".\ll-bones," from kd'ti'i, bone. A former chief of the Kast Cherokee, 

 also known in the tribe as SiVDimu'yl (Shawano), and to the whites as Sawnook 

 or Flying-squirrel. 



