MiioNEY] GLOSSARY 545 



Uy'gila'gl — iiM>rcvi:iti'il fmiu Tsuyu',i.'ila'!;i, ■■Where llirre are ilaiiis," i. e., bearer 

 flams; iromijn'^ili'i'i'iriaku', "he is<laiiHiiint.' it." 1. A former settlement on Ooth- 

 caloga (Ougilli)gy) creek of Oostaiuuila river, near t!ie present Calhoun, in Gordon 

 county, Georgia; 2. Beavenlam creek, west oi (:iarkesville, in Habersham county, 

 Georgia, 



Va i.i.Kvrowx — see (lu'nahiKm'iil. 

 \'KN(iE.ANCE CREEK — see dSiindd'yl. 



\VAcnEs.\ — see U'alni'si'L 



wadi'iii' — thanks ! 



wa'dl — i)aint, especially red jiaint, 



wS'dige-aska'lI — "his head (is) brown," i,e,, "brown-liead," horn yddif/c'l, brown, 

 brown-red, and askd'h, possessive of nnkd', head; the copperhead snake. 



Wadi'yilhl — A feminine name of doulitful etymology. An expert basket-making 

 woman among the East ("herokee, who died in 1895. She was kn<iwn to the 

 whites as Mrs Bushyhead. See page 179. 



W AFFORD — see Tm^kimnun'niDm'ICi. 



Wa'glnsI' — The name of an eddy at the junction of the Little Tennessee and main 

 Tennessee rivers, at Lenoir, in Loudon county, Tennessee. The town is now 

 known to the Cherokee by the same name, of wliich the meaning is lost. See 

 number 124. 



wagull' — whippoorwill; the name is an onomatope; the Delaware name is irekolis 

 (Heckewelderj . 



Wahnenauhi — see Wani'nalu. 



wa'huhu' — the screech-owl (Meyascops amo); see also tsk'dl' and uyitkii'. 



wa'ka — cow; from the Spanish vaca, as is also the Creek vaga and the Arapaho 

 iraki'ich. 



walil'sl — the common green frog; there are different names for the bullfrog (kumi'nu, 

 q, V,) and for other varieties; warts are also called wald'sX. 



Walilsi'yl — "Frog place." 1. A former settlement, known to tlw whites as Frog- 

 town, upon the creek of the same name, north of Dahlonega, in Lumiikin 

 county, Georgia. 2, Le Conte and Bullhead mountains in the Great Smoky 

 range on the North Carolina-Tennes.see line, together with the ridge extending 

 into Sevier county, Tennessee, between the Middle and West forks of Little 

 Pigeon river. See number 51 and notes. 



walas'-unul'sti — "it fight.s frogs," from wald'sl, frog, and un(d's:ll, "it lights" 

 (habitually); i/t'i'liln't', "I am fighting." The Prdfartitt lanuyiiidfui plant. See 

 nundjer 12li. 



Walas'-unulsti'yl — "Place of the plant inildx'-inn'iVsl-i," commonly known to the 

 whites as Kightingtown, from a translation of the latter part of the name; a 

 former settlement on Fightingtown creek, near Morganton, in Fannin county, 

 Georgia. See number 125. 



WalinI' — a feminine name, comjxjunded from Wafi, another form of Kirall, "Polly," 

 with a suflix added for euphony. 



Wane'-asiin'tluriyT — " Hickory footlog place," from waiie/l, hickory, a.iuullun'l 

 (q.v.), footlog, bridge, and //T, locative. A former settlement, known to the 

 whites a.s Hickory-log, on Etowah river, a short distance above Canton, in Cher- 

 okee county, <Teorgia. 



Watn'mthl' — a feminine name of uncertain etymology; the Wahnenauhi of the 

 Wahnenauhi manuscript. 



Washington — see Wa'sit&'m't. 



WA'sT— the Cherokee form for Moses, 



ly ETH— 01 35 



