MooNEY) GLOSSARY 539 



stood to rpfcr to the eyes, alfhougli the word eye (nkhV, plural dikid.') is not a 

 part of it. Ci. AtA'-gCitl-tiUi'. A mythic giant and ruler of the game. The name 

 ha.« heen corrupted to Jntaculla and Tuli-cula. Jutaeulla rock and .lutaeulla 

 iild fields about the head of Tuckasegee river, in .Tackson, Xorth ("arolina, take 

 their name from him. See number 81 and notes. 



Tsule'hi.sanfin''hl — "Resurrected One," from di'gwCtk'liinuiiuri'fri, " I was resurrected," 

 literally, " I was down and have risen." Tm'WtgY Tunlc'lumuihrilri, the Cherokee 

 title of the newspaper known to the whites as tlu^ Cherokee Pluenix. The 

 Cherokee title was devised by Worcester and Boudinot as suggesting the iilea of 

 the phcenix of classic fable. The Indian name of the recent " Cherokee .\dvo- 

 cate" is Tsa'Uiijl Asdeli'ski. 



TsurkSlu' tsunegilii'yl — see Tsmtegufl'iji. 



tsulie'ua — the nuthatch (<SVffa mrolineiuin); the word signifies literally "ileaf" (a 

 plural form referring to the ear, gidi'), although no reason is given fnr sncli a 

 name. 



tsulu — kuigfisher. '/. tsu'lil. 



TsiVlunwe'I (abbreviated Tsul.ufi'ire or Txtda'u-I, jKissitily connected with Ixuld, 

 kingfisher) — Chilhowee creek, a north tributary of l^ittle Tennessee river, in 

 Blount county, Tennessee. 



Tsunda'nilti'yl — "Where they demanded the debt from him"; a place .m Little 

 Santeetla river, we.st of Robbinsville, in Graham county, North Carolina. Tlie 

 creek also is commonly known by the same name. See number 122. 



Tsundige'wl — "Closed anuses," literally "They have them closed," understood to 

 refer to the anus; from dlge'w), plural of ge'it-l, closed, stopped U]i. blind; cf. 

 T»\ith&l(i'; also (Inlingf'v'l., "Blind, or closed, ears," an old personal name. 

 See number 74. 



tsun'digwun't.ski (contrai-tcd from Ixnn'digirnnlsngl, "they have them forked," 

 referring to the peculiar forked tail; cf. Txii(k(Wi') — a migratory bird which once 

 appeared for a short time upon the East Cherokee reservation, apparently, from 

 the description, the scissortail or swallow-tailed flycatcher (MUimlus forfi.catim). 

 See number 35. 



Tsuuegun'yl (sometimes called TsidkiUiV Txmwgun'yV) — Tennessee liald, \\\ the 

 extreme head of Tuckasegee river, on the east line of Jackson county, North 

 Carolina. The name seems to mean, " There where it is white," from ^<, a pre- 

 fix indicating distance, uiie'gfi, white, and //T, locative. See number SI and 

 notes. 



TsuniKkftltl — the plural form for Txnf kah'i, >\. v.; a traditional ixiant trilic in the 

 west. See number 106. 



tsunii''liyu'suni;stla'tii — "they have split no.-Jes," fnini iigirn'lii/i'i'. " I have it," and 

 uncslldfi'. "it is cracked" (as a crack made by the sun's heat in a log or in the 

 earth); the initial .f makes it refer to the nose, Mi/ri-sa'. See immber 70 and 

 notes. 



tsunls't-sfthl — "(those) having topknots or crests," from uMsahtV, "having a top- 

 knot," H.steit/i?', " he has a topknot " ( habitual). See number 7t) and notes. 



Tsuniya'tigtl — "Naked People"; literally "They are naked there," from ni/d'tigCi, 

 naked (singular), with the prefix Ik, indicating distance. A traditional western 

 tribe. See number 105. 



tsunsdi' — contracted from tsunadi'ga, the plural of iiadi'i/n or n.idl', small. 



Tsunu'lahuh'skl — "He tries, but fails" (habitually), from dihliiii'lalii'dTgi'i' (q. v.), 

 "I trie<l, hut failed." A former noted chief among the Kast Cherokee, com- 

 monly known to the whites as Junaluska. In early life he was called (li'ifka- 

 Ui'ukt, a name which denotes something habitually falling from a leaning position 

 (cf. AtA-gutkaltV and TsntkCdu'.) See page 164. 



tsiul-ka'wi-ye', t,siin-slkwa-ya', tsuii-tsu''la-ya', tsun-wa''ya-ya' — " I am (tsiih or t.ti. 



