KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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A'piimil'dal(te) — "Struck-his-liead- 

 iifiainst-a-tree," a Mexieau captive 

 killed ill Texas in the winter of 1866-67. 

 Fioniiijiaded'dalf/O}), "I strike my head 

 against a tree;" n, tree; Ci'daU, head, 

 in composition. 



iipantscp — they left him (it; tied; I tie 

 him (uncommon), gydpd'ni; Heave him 

 tied, gyapS'ntaep, 



a'piita' — far up, far oif ; a word used in 

 pointing out the top of a very tall tree, 

 the end of a long rope or a sky depth ; 

 intended to convey the idea of going 

 out of sight. 



A' piita'te — " Far-up," iroia a" pata' and te; 

 a Kiowa rendering of the name of the 

 Cheyenne chief, Wo'ifdo'ish, "Touch- 

 the-clouds," killed by the Pawnee in 

 1852. He was also called K'a-t'ogya, 

 "Knife shirt," or Ha'nt'o'-gyiik'i'a, 

 "Iron-shirt-mau" (Cheyenne, Md-ai'- 

 tai'-i'stsi-M'nd'), ou account of a cuirass 

 which he wore, proliahly taken from 

 Mexico (see k'a, t'ogi/d, hdngya, Via). 



A'piitdo' p'a — Cimarron river, Oklaho- 

 ma, "river of trees with low spread- 

 ing branches," from a, pd'tdo', and^j'o. 

 Also sometimes called Doha' te-hem-de 

 p'a, "river where Doha'siin died" (in 

 1866), from Doha'tc, hem, -de, and ^j'a. 



ii'piitsa't — tree tops, from d aniljydtad't. 



a'pen — otter. 



A'peu-gn'adal — "Red-otter;" a Kiowa 

 warrior, brother of old Lone-wolf 

 (see Winter 1873-74). From a'jKii and 

 gii'ddal. 



A'piatau — "Wooden-lance;" a Kiowa 

 delegate to the messiah, 1890, and to 

 Washington, 1894; also spelled .lA-j;c- 

 ah-tone {Report, 113). The name im- 

 plies a lance without a metal blade, 

 like Set-t'aiute's famous zebat, from d 

 a,uApidtan'ga. 



a'poto — a branch or limb of a tree; a 

 forked stick or rod ; one of the large 

 forked poles which support the roof of 

 the medicine lodge; from d and x>o'to' 

 (see story, Summer 18.57). 



a'siihe' — rag weed (^4m6)'os(njjsi/os(acAi/a), 

 literally "green plant," from d and 

 sdhe' . It is used medicinally by the 

 Kiowa for persons and horses, and on 

 account of the resemblance to its bit- 

 ter taste the name has been transferred 

 to pickles, dmhe', whence also d'sdhe'- 

 ton, vinegar. 



ase' — a creek or small stream. The 

 word is seldom heard, ^j'a being gen- 

 erally used for all streams, large or 

 small. 



a'se'gya — spring (the season), an archaic 

 word which can not be analyzed 

 (see page 366). It is also known as 

 so'npa'ta, "grass sprouting," from son 

 and gydpa'ta. 



ii'semtse — he was stolen. I steal, gyd- 

 se'mdo or gydse'mk'o; I steal a horse, 

 cow, etc, gydse'mk'op; they stole 

 them (horses, etc), eda'ae'mk'op; thief, 

 se'mdt, hence their name for the Kiowa 

 Apache. 



A'sese p'a — Clear fork of Brazos river, 

 Texas; literally, "wooden arrowpoint 

 river," from d, se'se, and ^j'a. The 

 Comanche name, conveying the same 

 meaning, is Td''ka-ho'norit. Cf. Se'sep'a. 



Atdblts (Comanche) — see E'sikwita. 



A'-tagu'i — the Lipan and the Mescalero 

 Apache; "timber Apache," from a, and 

 Tagu'i. It seems to refer more particu- 

 larly to the Lipan.the Mescalero usually 

 being called by their Comanche name 

 of i^'sikwiia. 



ii'taha'-i — a war-bonnet, literally " feath. 

 er crest," from d and taha'. The war- 

 bonnet is the most showy part of an 

 Indian warrior's dress, and consists of 

 a cap and crown of eagle feathers, with 

 a pendant of the same feathers fixed in 

 a broad streamer of red cloth or Initfalo 

 skin of sufficient length to trail upon 

 the ground when the wearer stands 

 erect. Cf. d'tald'. 



A'taha'-iGy;i''gan-deA8e' — "creek where 

 they bought the war-bonnet;" the 

 fourth creek entering North fork of 

 Red river from the nortli below Sweet- 

 water creek, western Oklahoma ; so 

 called because some returning warriors 

 brought to the Kiowa camp there a 

 war-bonnet taken from the Ute (see 

 Summer 1869). From d'taha'-i, gyd- 

 'ga'n,-de, and ase'. 



A'taha'-ik'i — "War-bonnet-man," a Ki- 

 owa warrior killed in Mexico in 

 1844-45; also known as Sel-k'o'dalte, 

 "Boar-neck;" from d'taha'-i, k'i, set, 

 k'odal, and le. 



iit'a'kagu'a — antelope "medicine" for 

 hunting antelope; literally, "they 

 surrounded (dka'gu'a) antelope (t'a);" 

 present, used only for ceremonial or 



