MooNEY] GLOSSARY 537 



tsetsiliii'll — ■■thy two i-Mit l)i'iitliors " (luale spwiking); my elder l)rntlu-r (male 

 speaking), uu'jini'ti. See note to number ti:!. 



T,«giigun'y! — "Insect place," from Ixytiiiil, insect, and //;, lnoivtive. A cave in the 

 ridge eastward from Franklin, in JIacon county, Xorth Carolina. Seenumt)er i:?. 



tsgiivit— insect, worm, etc. See page 308. 



Tslkilina'gl — a name, commonly spelled Chickamauga, occurring in at least two places 

 in the old Cherokee country, which has lost any meaning in Cherokee and 

 appeal's to be of foreign origin. It is applied to a small creek at the head of 

 Chattahoochee river, in Wliite county, Georgia, and also to the district about 

 the southern (not the northern) Chickamauga creek, coming into Tennessee 

 river, a few miles above Chattanooga, in Hamilton county, Tennessee. In 1777 

 the more hostile portion of the Cherokee withdrew from the rest of the tribe 

 and established here a large settlement, from which they removed aljout five 

 years later to settle lower down the Tennessee in what were known as the 

 Chickamauga towns or Five Lower towns. See page 54 and number 124. 



talkl' — a word which renders emphatic that which it follows: as d'slfi, "very good," 

 lUlu' tslkt, " best of all." See number 75. 



tslklkl' — the katydid; the name is an onomatope. 



tsl'kllill' — the Carolina chickadee (Pariiitraroliiieiisis); the name is an onomatope. 

 See number 35. 



Tslksi'tsi ( 7'((fa«i'/.?nn dialectic form; commonly written Tuckasegee) — 1. a former 

 Cherokee settlement about the junction of the two forks of Tuckasegee, above 

 Webster, in Jackson county, North Carolina (not to be confounded with 

 Tikwdli'M, q. v.). 2. A former settlement on a branch of Brasstown creek of 

 Hiwassee river, in Towns county, Georgia. The word has lost its meaning. 



Tsl'nawl — a Cherokee wlieelwright, perliaps the first in the Nation to make a spin- 

 ning wlieel and loom. Tlie name can not be analyzed. See page 214. 



tslne'u — I am picking it (something long) U]); in the Lower and Middle dialects, 

 lAiilf/i'u. 



tslnigi'u — see Ulne'd. 



tsiska'glll — the large reil crawfish; the ordinary crawfish is called tt:istij,'nn. See 

 number 59. 



tsi'skwa — bird. 



tsiskwa'gwil — robin, from Lti'skira, bird. 



Tsiskwa'hl — "Bird place," froni tsi'skwa, bird, and /(?, locative. Birdtown settlement 

 on the East Cherokee reservation, in Swain county. North Carolina. 



tsiskwa'yft — sparrow, literally "principal bird" (i. e., most widely distributed), from 

 tsl'slar<i, bird, and //("(, a suffix denoting principal or real. 



Tsilalu^'hi — "Sweet-gum place," from tsila'lu', sweet-gum (Litjuidamhai-), and h't, 

 locative. A former settlement on a small branch of Bnisstown creek of Hiwas- 

 see river, just w'ithin the line of Towns county, Georgia. Tl'.e name is incor- 

 rectly rendered (Jumlog (creek). 



Tsiskwunsdi'-adsisti'yl — "Wliere they killed Little-bird," from Tsiskw-uiiMli' , 

 "Little-birds" (plural form). A place near the head of West Buffalo creek, 

 southeast of Robbinsville, in (Jraham county. North Carolina. See number 122. 



Tsistetsi'yl — "Mouse place," from tsistdsl, mouse, and;/', locative; a former settle- 

 ment on South Mouse creek, of Hiwassee river, in Bradley county, Tennessee. 

 The present town of Cleveland, upon the same creek, is known to the Cherokee 

 under the same name. 



tsistu — rabbit. 



tsistu'na — crawfish; the large horned lieetle is also so called. The large red crawfish 

 is called tsiska'glll. 



tsist-iuii'gisti — "rabbit foods" (plural), from tsi'stii. ralibif, and iiiii'(/isl1. |)lural of 

 uyi'sfi, food, from Isitji'giu "1 am eating" (soft fooil). The wild rose. 



