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KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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pole;'' ii Kiowii girl c:ijitiireil by the 

 Osage iiud returned to her friends 

 liy the dragoons in 1834. Catlin, 

 who painted her i)ictnre, calls her 

 " Wun-pan-to-mee, the white wi-asel." 

 Gu'npii'nda'-i is the owner's "medi- 

 cine," or protecting talisman, usually 

 kept in a bag or pouch tied inside the 

 tipi and just above the junction of the 

 bed curtain to that one of the three 

 principal poles which stands nearly 

 opposite the entrance. The Cheyenne 

 sometimes hang it outside, near the 

 door. The word is compounded from 

 guiita, tipi pole, da'-i, medicine, and 

 pii, the root of the verb gyiipa'-imo, I 

 tie. The suffix -md ra.akes it a femi- 

 nine name. The medicine, as also the 

 tipi pole to which it is attached, are 

 also ciille<l komlU'i/a or komUV-gu'ti-du. 

 lu this case the medicine may have 

 been inclosed in a bag made of white 

 ermine skin. The three jirincipal tipi 

 poles tied together are called ijunpii 

 {gun and pii) ; the Comanche tipi has 

 four principal poles. 



Gunsa'daltc — "Horned" or "Having- 

 horns," from gun, sadal. and Iv, per- 

 haps from his having some time worn 

 a ceremonial cap with bufi'alo horns. 

 A Kiowa warrior, still living, who 

 acted as Kiowa iuterpretiT at the 

 treaty of 1867. Sometimes also known 

 as Bd'o, "Cat." 



gunse'to — lance, spear; an old form used 

 in personal names is pi'dtau'ga, from 

 pi'a'la'gtt, "he stabs with a spear." 



guntii — tipi pole; plural, gnu. Tipi 

 poles are made preferably of cedar, on 

 account of its durability and freedom 

 from liability to warp; they are some- 

 times made of Cottonwood. Twenty is 

 .the average estimate to a tipi, besides 

 the two outside poles. Cf. ;/»'<?», dance. 



Gusa'ko — see 1\ apd'to. 



Gwa'hale p'a — "Kwahadi creek;" West 

 Cache ireek on the reservation. From 

 the fact that Chief Quanah lives upon 

 it, it is sometimes called Gu'a'na-de 

 p'a, "Quanah's creek.'' 



Gwa'hale'go — (1) Kwahadi Comanche, the 

 westernmost and most warlike portion 

 of the tribe, formerly ranging princi- 

 pally about the Staked plain, under 

 the immediate leadership of Quanah, 



present head chief of the whole tribe; 

 the Comanche word is said to signify 

 "antelopes," and the Kiowa name is a 

 corruption from it. (2) Another name 

 for the T'ok'VuiUiijup, q. v. 



-gyii — ^ locative suffix equivalent to "at" 

 or "in." Cf. grjU-. 



gyii an assertive prefix with verbs and 



adjectives. Cf. -.'///«. 



gyji'ango'p — I kick. 



gyiibo'nse — it stinks. 



gyiida'mo— I make, I do. Cf. um, dma. 



gyiido' — I have it. Cf. gi/dt'o' and kijiito'. 



gya/'gan— they brought it; I bring it, 

 gyitga'n : they brought it, g!/d''gaii or 

 a''gan. 



gyii'gu'atda' — I paint, draw, write, 

 tattoo, make a picture; gu'ulgnti, pic- 

 ture; (ju'adaldu' , it is painted, it is red. 



Gyai'-kao'dal — "Comanche cache," from 

 (ri/ai'ko and kao dal; the vicinity of a 

 spring in the mountains of northern 

 Coahuila, Mexico, one day's journey 

 south of the Rio Grande and probably 

 one of the "tinajas;" a Comanche ren- 

 . dezvous in their raids into north- 

 eastern Mexico. 



Gyai''l<o — Comanche; "enemies;" singu- 

 lar, Gyaik'i, Ggai'md, from nydgi/ai'to. 

 This name "Enemies," is the common 

 Kiowa name for the Comanche, now 

 their close allies (see page 1(52 eij)fls«im). 

 Other Kiowa names for them are 

 (1; Sdnko, now obsolete, probably sig- 

 nifying "snakes," from sd'ne, snake; 

 (2) P'o'dalk'i'dgo, or P'o'dalyya'ko, 

 "reptile people," iTomp'odal and k'iUgo. 

 This last name is probably a substitute 

 for the previous term Siinko, on the 

 occasion of the death of some person 

 of somewhat similar name. The early 

 French explorers called them Pa'doucn, 

 from their common designation among 

 the Dakota, Osage, and cognate tribes. 

 It may possibly be derived from 

 Fe'niitc'ka, the name of the east- 

 ernmost division of the Comanche. 

 SiGX: Wavy motion, as of a suake, 

 made from front to back with the 

 right forefinger. Cf. Shoshoni sign 

 under So'ndo'ta. 



G,va'i'koaori'te — "He - likes- (or rejoices 

 in)-enemie8,'' or " He-likes- the-Coman- 

 che" (the Kiowa name for Coniani'he 

 signifies "enemy" — see preceding), 



