MooNF.v] GLOSSARY 541 



tu'vil — bium. 



tii'y:\-dlskala\v'sti'skl — see la'iji\ 

 tii'vahusl' — "she will die." 

 Ty.mahse — see Tomassee. 



I'chee — see Ani'- Yn'lxi. 



lula'hale'yl — " on the sunny siile." 



uda'I — the baueberry or cohosh vine (Aduii'!). Tlic nunii' sii.'nilii's tliat tin- i)lant 



has something long hanging from it. 

 uda'll — "(it is) married"; the mistletoe, .so called on acconnt of its jjara.-'itic habit. 

 U'dilwaguii'ta — "Bald." .\ bald monntain of the Cireat 8moky range, in Yancey 



county, North Carolina, not far from Monnt Jlitehell. See number 51. 

 Udsi'skaia— a masculine name, 

 uga'sltil — .sour. 



uiigidil' — "thy two elder brothers" (male speaking). See notes to mnuber():i. 

 iingili'sl (plural, ts^tRgili'sl) — "my daughter's child." See note to nund)er (iii, and 



cf. anr/ini'sl. 

 ungiiu'll — "my elder brother" (female sjieaking). See notes to nnnd)er 63. 

 iingini'sl (plural tsunriiiii'xy) — "my .son's child." See note to number 60, and cf. 



t'digUi'xi. 

 u'giska' — " he is swallowing it; from tslkiu', "I am eating." .''ee number ,S and notes. 

 u'guku' — the hooting or barred owl {Symium nebulosum) ; the name is an onomatope. 



See also tskltl' and va''hnhu'. 

 uguiiste'll [uyunste^lu in dialectic form) — the hornyhead fish {('ampn.'ilniiKi, stone 



roller). The name is said, on d(in))tfnl authority, to refer to its having horns. 



See number .5it. 

 Ugttn'yl -Tallnlali falls, on the I'iver of that name, northeast from Clarkesville, in 



Habersham county, Georgia; the meaning of the nanjc is lost. See number 84. 

 UiLATA — See VtUin'ta. 



uk-ku'sufitsuti3tl' — "it will twist up one's arm." See number 11.5. 

 Uk-ku'suiitsuti — "Bent-bow-shape"; a comic masculine name. Cf. (juUm't'i, bow. 



See number 11.5. 

 uk-kwiinilgi'stl — "it will draw down one's eye." See number llo. 

 Uk-kwun;1gi'ta — "Eye-drawn-down"; a comic masculine name. See number 11.5. 

 uksu'hi — the mountain blacksnake or black racer ( Coluber nhxohttiK ) ; the name seems 



to refer to some peculiarity of the eye, (tkkV; nhxiilta', " he has something lodged 



in his eye." See number 53 and notes. 

 Ukte'na — "Keen-eyed (?)" from aktS.', eye, akta'tl, to examine closely. A mythic 



great homed serpent, with a talismanic diadem. See number .50 and notes. 

 Ukte'na- tsuganun'tatsuii'yl — "Where the Uktena got fastened." A spot on Tucka- 



segee river, about two miles above Bryson City, in Swain county, North Caro- 

 lina. See number 122. 

 Uktena-utansi'nastun'yl — "Where the Uktena crawled." A rock on the north bank 



of Tuckasegee river, about four ndles above Bryson City, in Swain county. North 



Carolina. See number 122. 

 Ukwu'ni (or Ukwii'iii) — a former Cherokee settlement, commonly known to the 



whites as Oconee, on Seneca creek, near the present Walhalla, in Oconee county, 



South Carolina. 

 Ula'gii' — the mythic original of the yellow-jacket tribe. See number 13. The word 



signifies "leader," "boss," or "principal one," andisapplied to the first yellow- 

 jacket (di<kn''i) seen in the spring, to a queen lice and to the leader of a working 



squad. 

 u'lilniVwit — the soft-shell turtle; the etymology of the word is uncertain. See also 



ndligu'r/t and l/ikisi'. 

 uUisu'la — moccasin, shoe. 



