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KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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Mritso — cannon liall; literally, ''iron 

 rock.'' 



Hautso fi'a — '■cannou-lmll river;" a 

 river in Kansas; so callcil on account 

 of an abnndance of iron nodules in 

 its vicinity ; a branch of Kansas river, 

 probably the Solomon; perhaps the 

 Repnblicau river. 



HaTizepho'Ma— " Kills-wi th - a -g u n , '' 

 from hd'n:e'iiko and (ii/aho'ialild. (Cf. 

 elio'ial); a Kiowa warrior who died in 

 1863-64. 



ha'nze'pko — gun; literally, "iron bow," 

 from hiViiijya and zrpko. 



Heidsick — see Gna'piatan. 



hem — he died; I am dead(?), dhe'm; he 

 is dead, hem; he will die, hi'naUV (a 

 different word). 



hen without, less, iu composition. 



Cf. Tao'dal-he'ntc, ToiVien-fdkn'-i-dombc; 

 he'ngyato', there is none; lien'j/alo', I 

 have none. 



Heno'nko — Hidatsa, Minitarf, or Gros- 

 vcntros of the Missonri ; singular, 

 Beno'filciu, Heno'iimu. The word, of 

 which the root is Heno'n, has no mean- 

 ing in the Kiowa language and may 

 be derived from Ucraiitsa, another form 

 of Hidatsa. The name Minitari is of 

 Siouan origin, and signifies "water 

 crossers," or "water people." 



Hen-ton-te— see Hafido'ti. 



He-pan-ni-gais — " He-pan-nl-gais, the 

 Night," the name of a Kiowa signer 

 of the treaty of 1837, as it appears on 

 the treaty. The form seems to con- 

 tain the word j)(V«, cloud or sky. 



hi adal — a creek-liko depression, or shal- 

 low valley, but without water. 



Hi ndfll-gyu'nhii'te p'a — Devil or San 

 Pedro river, Texas, joining the Rio 

 Grande below the Pecos; literally, 

 "long valley river." Described as 

 flowing with a noisy current and 

 having very large fish. A war trail 

 into Mexico crossed near there. 



-bin — principal, real, a suffix; as Whifi, 

 cottouw<H)d, litcrallj' " priuciiial tree ;'' 

 gu'ato'hifi, eagle, literally "principal 

 bird." 



hi'tngi'i'! — wait! — abbreviated hili'i'! 



ho — the root of the vcrl> iiho'n, "I 

 travel;" ho' an, a road; ho'fiijn, mov- 

 ing, to or from a destination; hop, 

 emigrants; tsa'hop, immigrants. 



ho'an — road, trail. CC. ho and ha/i. 



llo'au-t'a'ka'-i — "white man's load;" 

 the main emigrant road, formerly run- 

 ning through southwestern Texas to 

 (laliforuia. 



hodal or ho'd.ald.i — sickness; I am sick, 

 iiho'daltJa. 



hop — emigrants; people^ moving off with 

 their hou.sehold goods, etc; tuiikop, 

 immigrants; people moving iu tliis 

 direction with their household goods. 

 Cf. ho ; kota'dalhop. 



Ho'tgyii.st'm p'a — Saline river (f), Kan- 

 sas. 



HOW — the universal Indian "yes," or ex- 

 pression of assent, as conuuonly writ- 

 ten by English authors. The Kiowa 

 " yes" is ho or hd. 



Ho-WK-AR — see Uowi'a. 



Howi'a (Comanche) — a Comanche signer 

 of the treaty of 1867, whose name 

 appears on the treaty as " Ho-wi-ar, 

 or G.ip in the woods." 



i — child, offspring, in composition; it 

 also conveys the idea of "small," as 

 gu'ato'l, small bird; ]>lural -yu'i, as 

 Si'ndiyu'i, A'dalio'yu'i. Cf. e. 



lAm guan — "Adoption dance," from i, 

 dm, and guan; an intertribal dance 

 with a ceremonial adoption of chil- 

 dren (see Winter 188!»-90). 



I'i'ipa — "Baby," from i'upa'yya; a Kiowa 

 warrior in 1876-77. 



i'iipa'gya — baby. 



I'ittii k'op — " Ute mountain ; '' tlic Rocky 

 mountains of Colorado and \ew Mex- 

 ico, so called because occnjiied by the 

 Ute. Cf. I'dtii'go. The Kiowa call the 

 mountains about the heads of the Yel- 

 lowstone and Missouri rivers Odi k'op, 

 "Kiowa mountains," and the Sierra 

 Madre of Mexico K'ob-e'tii, "Great 

 mountain." 



I'iltji'go — Ute; from l'i((a, one form of the 

 name used by the lite to designate 

 themselves; in the Kiowa word go is 

 the tribal suffix. They are also some- 

 times called K'opk' i'dffo, "mountain 

 people," from k'op and Ic Viitjo ; and are 

 probablyidcnlical with the Ko'iik' i'dgo, 

 "black people," said by one informant 

 to be the Crow. The ordinary nanui 

 and sign for the Ute among most of 

 the plains tribes d<'notes "black peo- 

 ple ;" the Kiowa usually designate 



