MooNEY] GLOSSARY 525 



[point (111 ('imiicross creek (from Kdwi'm'-unVsiin) , near Seiiccii, in ( )iiiiii> mty, 



Srnith Carolina. See number 12:^. 



Kawi'vl (abl)reviateil Kairi') — a former important Clierokee settlement, (■oiiiinniily 

 known as Cowec, about the mouth of Oiwee creek of Little Tennessee river, some 

 10 miles below Franklin, in Macon county, North Carolina. The name may 

 liossibly be a contraction of Aiii'-Kmoi'ifi, " Place of the Deer rlan." 



Keeowhee — see Keowkk. 



Kenes.wv — see OunmVgl. 



Keowee — the name of two or more former Cherokee settlements. One, sometimes 

 ilistingnished as "Old Keowee," the principal of the Lower Cherokee towns, was 

 on the river of the same name, near the present Fort George, in Oconee county, 

 .•^outh Carolina. Another, ilistinKuisheil as New Keowee, was on the headwaters 

 of Twelve-mile creek, in Pickens county. South Carolina. Accordiufr to Wafford 

 the correct form \h Knirdhi'i/'i, alibreviated Kntnilii', " Mulberry -grove place"; 

 says AVafford, "The whites murdered the name, as they always do." Cf. Kiurd'ld. 



Ke'sl-ka'gamu — a woman's name, a Cherokee corruption of Ca,ssie Cockram; hi'ytimd 

 is also the Cherokee corruption for " cucumber." 



K etoo w.^ H — see Kit it 'hwa. 



KiTTLW.\ — see K'ltu'hwa. 



KItu'hwit — An important ancient Cherokee settlement formerly upon Tuckasegee 

 river, and extending from above the junction of Oconaluftee down nearly to the 

 ])resent Bryson City, in Swain county, North Carolina. The name, which 

 appears also as Kettooah, Kittoa, Kittowa, etc., has lost its meaning. The 

 people of this and the subordinate settlements on the waters of the Tuckasegee 

 were known as Ani'-Kltu'hicagl and the name was frequently extended to include 

 the whole tribe. For this reason it was adopted in later times as the name of 

 the Cherokee .secret organization, commonly known to the whites as the Ketoo- 

 wah society, pledged to the defense of Cherokee autonomy. See ai.so historical 

 notes 1 and 47. 



kiyu'ga — ground-squirrel; Ir'ini, flying squirrel; mVd'll, gray squirrel. 



KL.\fsi'N.\ — see Tlunusi' i/i . 



Knoxville — see Kuimndd'td' I nn'yl . 



kti!— an introductory exclamation, to fix attention, about equivalent to " Xou:'" 



kuku' — "cymling"; also the "jigger weed," or "pleurisy root"(.4.'«'Zepm.s/i(ttro.v(()- 

 Coco creek of Hiwassee river, and Coker postoffice, in Monroe county, Ten- 

 rsssee, derive their name from tliis word. 



Kulsetsi'yl (abbreviated Ki'il.w'i.ii) — "Honey-locust place," from l:nhi''l>!'i. honey- 

 locust (Glen.<ci<clii(i ) and i/t, locative; as the same word, kidxc'la'i, is also useil 

 for "sugar," the local name has commonly been rendered Sugartown by the 

 traders. The name, of several former settlement places in the old Cherokee 

 country. One was upon Keowee river, near the present Fall creek, in Oconee 

 county, South Carolina; another was on Sugartown or Cullasagee [Kuhe'lxi] 

 creek, near the i)resent Franklin, in Macon county, North Carolina; a third was 

 on Sugartown creek, near the i)re.sent .Morganton, in Fannin county, Oeorgia. 



Kcx.mesee — see 'IVyii-qnii^i' iil. 



Kunstutsi'yl — "Sassafras place," from kimxti'i'lu'i, sassafras, and //i. locativi'. .V gap 

 in the Great Smoky range, about the head of Xolaiid creek, on the line between 

 North Carolina and Sevier county, Tennessee. 



kunu'nu (abbreviated jtrmun') — the bullfrog; the name is probably an onoinatope: 

 the common green frog is timld'ai and there are also names for several other 

 varieties of frogs and toads. 



Kusa' — Coosa creek, an upper tributary of Nottely river, near Blairsville, Union 

 county, Georgia. The change of accent from Ku'sii (Creek, see ,l"i'-A'»'.«() 

 makes it locative. See page 383. 



