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CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA 



[ETIl. ANN. 17 



from gyai'ko and conti: a Kiowa war- 

 rior killed liv the jiUiho' , 4. v.. in 

 1854-5-). 



Gyai'-yii'daldii — •'Comanche hill;'' a hill 

 at the bead of Deer creek, a southern 

 tributary of the South Canadian, in D 

 county, Oklahoma. 



Gyai'-ya'daldii p'a — Deer creek, in D 

 county, Oklahoma; literally, "Co- 

 manche-hill river'" (see preceding). 



gyiik'a'ta — I bite, I bite oft" a piece; gyii- 

 zo'iite, I hold it with my teetb. 



gyiik'i'iida — tbey (it) sprouted. Cf. 

 ek^i'ada. 



gyii'ko — see I'i'ago. 



gyako'dal — they left them behind (im- 

 plyins; rolled or wrapped up, said 

 usually only of things to be rolled 

 or packed up) ; (iiiiiko'da, I leave it 

 wrapped or rolled >ip: do' fii/dko'da!. 

 they left their tipis rolled up or packed 

 away (the verb shows they were not 

 left standing); bako'. leave it there, 

 put it there. Cf. kao'dal and odal. 



gyiiku'atda — I take it out (as from a box, 

 pocket, or fastening). Cf. K'li'ato. 



gyiipa'bii — I bring him; he brought him, 

 pa'<ia')ii; he brought thi'm, c'pa'ga'ni. 



gyiipii'-iuio — I tie. Cf. iiopan. 



gyapa'-iugya — dawn. 



gyiipa ta — it is sprouting. Cf. gyak'i'add 

 and gi/apa'to. 



gyapa'to — I eat. Cf. 2>iii and ggiipa'ta. 



gyiipii'to — 1 sharpen; k'a-pd'ti, whet- 

 stone; K' a' -pa' top. "knife-whetters," 

 i. e., Apa<be. 



gyii'pe'to — I am afraid, I am frightened; 

 pe'io', he is afraid; gyiipcto, they are 

 afraid ; ('''pea, they are afraid of him ; 

 etpc', they were afraid. 



gyjita'da — they were surrounded; we are 

 surrounding him, egi'dta'da. Cf. gi/d- 

 tii'da. 



gyitta''da — I cut; root, in comjiosition, 

 tii, as «'-/n", sawmill; 30'n-t<i', mowing 

 machine. 



gyiit'o' — (it is) cold; I am cold, dka'hcm. 

 Cf. ggddo' and kijU'^to' . 



gyiize'mii — they (inanimate) move about; 

 <o'.i/((, it moves about; (ito'iit'i, I move 

 about. 



gyu nhii'te — very ( f ) tall or long; an in- 

 tensive form of ijyu' Hi. q. v. 



gyuTii — long. Cf. gi'a7ii, giiii'nhutt, .iinl 

 ki/it'ni. 



haa -ipai -degi— O sun I But you, O sun ! 

 pai. snu. Cf. hado'mya yi (see xhe song 

 of the Kaitse'nko. Summer 1871). 



habii — sloping, one-sided. 



hado'mga'gi — O earth ! But you, O earth ! 

 dom, earth. Cf. haa -ipai'deyi (see the 

 song of the Kaitsen'ko, Summer 1871). 



Hai tsiki (Comanche) — see Haa'pialan. 



Hdniiclia tlii'ak (A r a p a h o ) — s e e Pa- 

 ivntjya. 



Hiiu'do'ti — ■ • I r o n - m o c c a s i u ," from 

 hdnyya and doti ; the Kiowa name of an 

 Apache signer of the treaty of 1837 ; 

 called in the treaty "Hen-ton-te, the 

 iron shoe." 



h.Vngya — metal, particularly iron; in 

 composition haii : iron or steel, hd'ngya; 

 tin, haii-fain, "white metal;'' lead, 

 han -;e'bat, ''arrow, i. e., bullet 

 metal;" copper and brass, hdn-gu'ak'o, 

 '•yellow metal;'' gold, d'dalhd'il- 

 gu'adal, ''red money," or •'red hair 

 metal'' (seed'dalhiVngya); silver, (i'(?oZ- 

 hd'ii-fai'n, ''white money;" German 

 silver, hdv-kope'dal, •'flat metal," be- 

 cause bought in sheets). 



hau'-kope'dal — German silver; literally, 

 "flat metal." Cf. hdnyya. 



haupain — gunpowder, literally "iron 

 dust," from ha'ngya and jMi'ii. 



Han'paiu p'a — "powder river;" Powder 

 river in Montana and Wyoming. 



ba'n-po — trap; literally, "iron trap," 

 from hdngya, iron or steel ; and po, a 

 trap of any kind, including also a 

 spider's web. 



Haupo'ko — see Be'dalpa go. 



hftu -t'aiu' — tin; literally, "white 

 metal;'" sometimes improperly used 

 for d'dalhdu-i'ai'n, silver. 



Hiln't'aiu-k'a' — "Tin-knife," from hdii- 

 t'aln and k'a ; the Kiowa name of a 

 Comanche warrior killed in 1860; 

 sometimes improperly rendered "Sil- 

 ver-knife." 



Ha'ntak'i a— " Speetacle-mau," literally 

 " Jletal-eye-man." from huiigya. td. and 

 k'ia; Captain H. L. Scott, Seventh 

 Cavalry, formerly commander of the 

 Kiowa troop. 



hiVn-t'o'gyli — cuirass; literally, "metal 

 shirt;'" sometimes also called k'a'- 

 t'o'gyd. "knife shirt." 



Hilfit'o'gyiik'i'a — see A'pdta'te. 



