536 MYTHS OF THK CHEROKEE 1kth.an.n.19 



Tsa'htgl' ( Tfia'ra;;!' in Lower dialect) — tlie cuiTcc-t furni (<i Clierukee. See i>;i<re 182, 

 "Tril)al Synonymy." 



Tsa'll — Cliarley; a Cherokee shot for resisliiijr tlic tror)|)s at tlie tinienl' the Removal. 

 See page 131. 



tsaliyu'stT — "tobacco-like," from tHulu, tobacco, and iyti'sfi, like; a genei-ic name for 

 the cardinal-flower, mullein and related specie.s. See number 126. 



tsalu or tsalufi (in the Lower dialect, tsdru) — tobacco; by comparison with kindred 

 forms in other Iroquoian dialects the meaning "tire to hold in the mouth " seems 

 to be indicated. Lanman spells it tsu-hnuj}!. See number 12(j and page 187. 



tsa'meliit — see tla'mehd. 



tSiVnadiska' — for tsandishW "they say." 



tsana'seha'i' — so the\' say, they say about him. See nnmlier US. 



tsane'nj — the .scorpion lizard: also called iji' cifi-iUnierii'ski, q. v. Sei' liiiiulMT ."i^i. 



TsanI — John. 



TsantJlwu' — a masculine name which can not be analyzed. 



Tsan-uga'slta — "Sour John"; John Butler, a halfbreed Cherokee Iiall cai>tain, 

 formerly living on Nottely river. See number 122. 



Tsan-usdi' — "Little John"; the Cherokee name for General John Sevier, and also 

 the boy name of the chief John Ross, afterward known as Gn'ti'lsr/iivl', q. v. 

 Siku'i'il, a Cherokee attempt at "Sevier," is a masculine name upon the East 

 Cherokee reservation. 



tsanu'sl' — see fhrnu'sY. 



tsa'nuwiV — see tWnuica'. 



Tsa'rilgl' — Cherokee; see page 182, "Tril)al Synonymy." 



ts&ru — see tudli'i. 



Tsasta'wl — a noted hunter formerly living upon Nantahala river, in Macon county, 

 North Carolina; the meaning of the name is doubtful. See number 122. 



Tsatanu'gl (commonly sjielled Chattanooga) — the Cherokee name for some point 

 upon the creek entering Tennessee river at the city of Chattanooga, in Hamilton 

 county, Tennessee. It has no meaning in the Cherokee language and apjiears 

 to be of foreign origin. The ancient name for the site of the present city is 

 A'll&'miwil, q. V. See number 124. Before the establishment of the town the 

 place was known to the whites as Ross' landing, from a store kept there by 

 Lewis Boss, brother of the chief John Ross. 



Tsatu'gl (commonly w-ritten Chattooga or Chatuga) — a name occurring in two or 

 more places in the old Cherokee country, but apparently of foreign origin (see 

 page 382). Possible Cherokee derivations are from words signifying respec- 

 tively " he drank by sips," iromgatu'ffict', " I sip, "or "he has crossed the stream 

 and come out \ipon the other side," from gatu'gl, "I have crossed" etc. An 

 ancient settlement of this name was on Chattooga river, a liead-stream of Saxannah 

 river, on the boundary between South Carolina and Georgia; another appears to 

 have been on upper Tellico river, in Monroe county, Tennessee; another may 

 have been on Chattooga river, a tributary of the Coosa, in northwestern 

 Georgia. 



Tsa'wit Gakskl — Joe Smoker, from Tfuhvd, "Joe," and gak^kl, "smoker," from 

 ga'giskv, ' ' I am smoking. ' ' The Cherokee name for Chief Joel B. Mayes, of the 

 Cherokee Nation west. 



Tsftwa'sl — a Cherokee sprite. See nund.ier 78. 



tsa'weha — see tla'meh&. 



tsay'ku' — see tIay'kiY. 



Tsek'slnl' — the Cherokee form for the name of General Andrew Jackson. 



Ts6sa'nl — Jessan, probably a derivative from Jesse; a masculine name upon the East 

 Cherokee reservation. 



Tse'sl-Ska'tsi — " Scotch Jesse " ; Jesse Reid, present chief of the East Cherokee, ,so 

 called because of mixed Scotch ancestrv. 



