K IOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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biitso'I — run to it I hurry toward it! im- 

 plying hurrying to shelter or iirotoc- 

 tion, as tso' batso'! V oii bcitso'! 



Ba-zhe-ech (Apache) — an Apacho signer 

 of the treaty of 1867, called on the 

 treaty "I5a-zhe-ech, Iron Shirt.'' 



he'dal — mouth; properly, lips; siiiyuhir. 

 bc'ta. 



Hc'dalgu'at — see Do'gu'iU. 



bc'dalpa' — bear<l; literally, '■mouth 

 down or fur." from he'dal and pn : the 

 uu>rc <ouimon word is snipo, q. v. 



Be'dali>a'go — white pcojili*, jiarticularly 

 Americans; literally, "bearded peo- 

 ple." from be'dalpa' and go. Other 

 Kiowa names for the whites are: (1) 

 TV A'a'-»,an old word signifying "promi- 

 nent or flapping cars," from t'u and fca'-i, 

 from the fact that the shorter hair of the 

 white men makes their ears appear 

 more prominent ; the same name is also 

 applied to a mule. (2) Hdnpo'no, " trap- 

 jiers," from hd'npo' and (jo, because 

 some of the tirst whites known to them 

 were American trappers. (3) Ganon'lo, 

 "growlers," on account of their coarse 

 voices, as regarded by the Indians. 

 (4) Gafito'nto, "cap wearers," from 

 riai'ilo'n. (5) Bo'yonko, " lilonds;" sin- 

 gular, Bo'yonk'i'a, from boin and io 

 or k' ia. 



Be'dalpahen'ko — see Te'gud-go. 



Belo — "Pedro," the Kiowa corruption of 

 the name of a Carrizo (Mexican) cap- 

 tive, a Florida prisoner in 1875, and 

 still (1897) living. 



Be'fliiJtchi) (Apache) — the Kiowa Apache 

 name f(]r the Kiowa. 



Bi'ako — A'iejo (?); a Mexican captive 

 and a Florida prisoner in 1875; still 

 living. 



bian, liianta — large, t'f. edal. 



bi'iind.-ita — it boils, boiling. 



bi'fisot — shower, showery; bi'uso'tdn', it 

 is drizzling. 



bi'ImkiV-i — a parfleche box, pouch, box; 

 wooden box, tt'-o'kd'-i. 



bodal — abnormal, or useless (?); cf. Aa- 

 bodal and T'a-bodaJ. A somewhat 

 similar word, p'o'ddlla, in composition, 

 p'o'did. ij. v., signifies decayed or lotten. 



Bo'hc' — not tran8latal)le and jirobably of 

 foreign origin; a Kiowa man still liv- 

 ing, said to have six fingers on each 

 hand. His brother, Mana'tc, "Six," 

 had six toes on each foot. 



boho'n — cap, especially a war ca]i, orna- 

 mented with feathers, and sometimes 

 with buffalo horns. Bo'ho'nta or k'an- 

 ho'ho'nta, (a white man's) hat, from 

 boho'n and A' on, squeezed or compressed, 

 perhaps referring to tht^ split in the 

 middle or to the brim doubled up. 

 Boho'n-koTikya — " Black-cap ; " a former 

 Kiowa chief, one of the signers of the 

 treaty of 1837, where his naim- appears 

 as "Bon-congais, the Black Cap.'' 

 Catlin painted his picture in 1834 

 (pi. Lxxvi herein) under the name of 

 " lion-son-gee, the New Fire." Imo'tii, 

 a son of A'dalpe'pte, is properly 

 Boho'n-ko'nkya, named from this chief. 



bo'iu — blond, bright. Cf. isonda. 



Bo'in-o'dal — "Big-blond;" a German 

 captive, taken in 1835, still living 

 among the Kiowa (see Summer 1835). 



Bo'loi — not translatable, probably cor- 

 rupted from a foreign (Spanish ?) 

 name ; a Mexican captive and Florida 

 prisoner in 1875, still living. 



Box-CONGAis — see Boho'n-ko'i'ikijti. 



bo'npii — sweathimse; more commonly 

 called sd'dalgn'dt, from sd'daltej), sweat. 



Bo'npii p'a — see Ti^pgan p'a. 



HON-SON-GEE — see Boho'n-lv'riki/a. 



Bon ton — "stinking water, or spring," 

 from yydbo'nae, it stinks, and ton or 

 iohtep; a water hole on the Staked 

 plain, probably so called on account 

 of sulphur or alkali impregnation. 

 Probably Sulphur springs, in Martin 

 I'ounty, Texas, at the head of the Colo- 

 rado. 



hot — stomach, belly. 



Bot-e'dalte — "Big-stomach," from bot, 

 e'diil,a,\\A te ; a Kiowa woman who died 

 in the winter of 1882-83. 



Botk'i'iigo — ArapahoGros ventres; "belly 

 peojde," from bot and k'i'dgo. Cf. 

 A'hyUto. 



Bo'yonko — see Be'dalpa'go. 



byu'ni — circle, circular. 



Cataka — see Tagu'i and Kiowa Apache 

 synonymy. 



t'AYGUA — Spanish form of (Id'igwn (see 

 Kiowa synonymy). 



Cear-chi-neka — see Si'dchi'nika. 



C'ET-MA-Ni-TA — See Setmii'nte. 



CnA-H0N-i)E-T0N — " Cha-liou-de-ton, the 

 Flying S(|uirrel," the name of a Kiowa 

 signer of the treaty of 1837, as it 

 apjjears in the document. 



