SK.ONKYl GLOSSARY 533 



■ I kill." An nlil iiui.^i-iiliiu' [nTSDiial iiniiic, still iu use n])()n the East ('hcrnkee 

 TCHcrvatidii. It was the proper name of the chief known to the wliites about 

 1790 as "The Glass," from a confusion of this name with (irlnkr''n, jflass, or 

 mirror. 



Tajrwa'hl — "Catawba place," from Ahi'tjwn or Ta'yini, Catawba liulian, and hi, 

 locative. A name occurring in several places in the old Cherokee country. A 

 settlement of this name, known to the whites as Toccoa, was upon Toccoa creek, 

 east of Clarkesville, in Habersham county, Georgia; another was upon Toccoa 

 or Ocoee river, about the present Toccoa, in Fannin county, Georgia; a tliird 

 may have been on Persinnnon creek, which is known to the (;;herokee as Tag- 

 ird'lil, and enters Hiwassee river some distance below Murphy, in (jherokee 

 county. North Carolina. 



Taiikevostee — see l^tn'kiiitufli'y'i. 



Tahlequ.^h — see T&likml'. 



Tahchee — see 7Uts7'. 



Takatok.^ — see Di-'f/dltVi/i'i. 



tiVl;1<lfi' (abbreviated MWfi')— twelve, from M'/!, two. Cf. I&la'tit, cricket. 



Tti'last'— a former Cherokee settlement on Little Tennessee river, about Talassee 

 ford, in Blount county, Tennessee. The name has lost its meaning. 



Talassee — see Tiitasi'. 



tala'tii — cricket; .sometimes also called ililH'xUujf'!<kl((\.\.), "the Ijarber." CiJCi'lndn', 

 twelve. 



Tille'danigi'skl (Uldle'daniiji'sl in a dialectic form) — variously rendereil by the whites 

 "Hemp-carrier," "Nettle-carrier" or " Flax-toter," from tdle'la or uldle'la, 

 flax (Linum) or rich weed {I'ilca pamila), and danigi'skl, "he carries them 

 (habitually)." X former prominent chief on Valley river, in Cherokee county. 

 North Carolina. See numlier 95 and notes. 



Talihina — given as the name of the Cherokee wife of Samuel Houston; the form 

 cannot be identified. See page 223. 



Tillikwil' (commonly written Tellico, Telliquo or, in the Indian Territory, Tahle- 

 quah) — the name of several Cherokee settlements at different periods, viz: 1. 

 Great Tellico, at Tellico Plains, on Tellico river, in Monroe county, Tennessee; 

 2. Little Tellico, on Tellico creek of Little Tennessee river, about ten miles below 

 Franklin, in Macon county. North Carolina; 3. a town on Valley river, about 

 five miles abo\e Murphy, in Cherokee comity. North Carolina; 4. Tahlequah, 

 established as the capital of the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, in 1839. The 

 meaning of the name is lost. 



Tali'wil — the site of a traditional battle between the Cherokee and Creeks about 1755, 

 on Mountain (?) creek of Etowah river in upper Georgia. Probably not a Chero- 

 kee but a Creek name from the Creek tn'lua or ita'lua, town. See pages 38 and 

 384-385. 



Talking-rock — see Nuniii'i'-i/i'i /i iraii i'ukh 



T.\.LLrLAn — see TCdidfi'. 



Till-tsu'skil' — "Two-heads," from Id'l'i, two, and tua'ska', plural of uxka', (his) head. 

 A Cherokee chief about the year 1800, known to the whites as Doublehead. 



talull — pregnant; whence (dull', (she is) a mother, said of a woman. 



Tfllulu' (conunonly written Tallulah, and appearing in old documents, from the 

 Lower dialect, as Taruraw, Toruro, Turoree, etc.) — a name occurring in two or 

 more jjlaces in the old Cherokee country, viz: 1. An ancient settlement on tlie 

 upper part of Tallulah river, in Rabun county, Georgia; 2. a town on Tallulah 

 creek of Cheowa river, in Graham county. North Carolina. The word is of 

 uncertain etymology. The dniu'xl frog is said to cry tdluhV. See number 125. 

 The noted falls upon Tallulah river are known to the Cherokee as Ugtin'tfi, <]. v. 



T.\ i.iNTisKi — see Ata'luniVsH. 



