KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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Koriyii'ilaklii p'n — '•bliick-liill liver;" a 

 .stream in tho ncigliliorliood of Koni/a'- 

 claldii, q. v., Kansas (see 185J). 



KON-ZHOX-TA-CO— »eeS('(-(rt'd((/(Ai)ache). 



kop — pain. I have pain, 7n/aA»'j) ; sick- 

 uess, ho'iUUda: I am sick, riho'di'ilda. 



k'oj) — mcinntaiu; liel'ore vowels it. lie- 

 comes l:'ob. Cf. i/iidahla, ha'dlo'. 



K'op-pe i)'a — "mountain-sand river;" 

 Nortli i'orlc of Red river, Oklahoma. 

 It is said to be called Nueces liy the 

 Mexicans. 



kopa'-ingya — middle, in the middle; 

 ahlireviated jja'-iiir/i/a. 



kope'dal — Hat. CI', lu' -ifjihii' . 



K'o'pnya — "at the mountains,'' or "to- 

 ward the mountains,'' from k'up and 

 -cjyii ; vicinity of Fort Sill, on the reser- 

 vation. 



K'opk'i'iigo — see TatU'yo. 



Ko'ji-sole'gya — see Ts'o kada'hii'ytjti, 



K'op-tagu'i — the Jicarilla Apaihe; liter- 

 ally "Mountain Apache;" cf. Taiju'i. 



K'o'ptai'de-do'-tsc'dalte — Signal moun- 

 tain, west of Fort Sill, on the reserva- 

 tion; literally, "mountain with a house 

 situated upon it," from Hop, tai'-de, 

 do', and tsc'dallc. Also called Pi'uya- 

 do-Ue' dalle, "house upon the summit," 

 from pi'dya, do', aud tse'dalfr. Piotli 

 names, as well as the English uanii', 

 refer to the military lookout or signal 

 st.ation liuilt upon it in 1871 and still 

 remaining. 



K'o'p-t'a'ka'-i — New Mexicans, sometimes 

 iised for Mexicans generally ; literally, 

 "mountain whites," from Vop and 

 t'a'la'-i. Cf. Ji-faka' -i, Toii'he'n- 

 fa'ka'-i, Txo'-'t'a'ka'-i. 



K'o'p-t'a'ka'-i Do'nibe — New Mexico; 

 literally, "Mountain Mexican 

 country." 



K'o'p-t'a'ka'-i p'a — Delaware creek, a 

 south tributiiry of tin? W.ashita, on 

 the reservation, about 1 miles below 

 Auadarko; literally, "Mexican creek," 

 because a number of Mexicans with In- 

 dian wives now live there. It prob- 

 ably had an older name. 



kotii'dal — (or kotd'l); wheel; figura- 

 tively, a wagon. 



kotii'dalhop — freighters; from kotii'dal 

 and hop. 



Kotii'dalhop-gi'atada'e — "where they 

 surrounded the freighters," from kotii'- 

 dalhop awd (i!/dt(i'dii ; the battlefield of 



September 8, 1874, on the north side of 

 the Washita, near Fort Elliott, in the 

 Texas panhandle. 



KOTS- A-TO-Aii — "Kots-a-to-ah, Tho 

 smoked shield," the name of agigauti(? 

 Kiowa warrior and runner, as given 

 by Catlin, who painted his picture in 

 1834. The name or translation can not 

 l)e identified in Kiowa. It appears to 

 be a Comanche form containing the 

 word ko'tso, buftalo. Horace P. .Jones, 

 interpreter at Fort Sill, is called by the 

 C'omanehes Ko'tso-natu'ii, " Butfalo- 

 calf." 



Kotse'nto — see A'biiho'ko. 



K'u'ato — a Kiowa di\'ision, speaking a 

 peculiar dialect, extermin.ated by the 

 Dakota about 1770 (.see pages l.")7 and 

 229). The word signifies "pulling out"' 

 or "pulling up,'' as a knife from a 

 pocket, a nail from a board, etc, from 

 (jtjiiloi'atda. 



k'udal — to stay or dwell ; to be in .i ]>lace. 



kfi'tiharn (Pawnee) — a season (of the 

 year). 



Kwa'na — see Gii'a'na. 



Kwn''da — "coming out," "going out;" 

 ■an old name for the Kiowa tribe (see 

 Kiowa synonymy). 



ky;ihi'ri(-,iga) — tomorrow, abbreviated 

 kyiihi'n: kyiihi'n ki'iiaa' . shortly before 

 noon. 



kyafguan — deer; literally, "juniper," 

 from dekya'i'iju'anmo, I jump: other 

 names are t'iip and tan'i/ia. i\.\. 



kyiika'u — after; literally, "at the end,'' 

 from aka'n, q. v. ; applied also to the 

 final part of a song, etc; Tii'dalkop 

 Eydka'n K'a'do', " sun dance after the 

 smallpox;" nyii'kyiika'u, it is gone, 

 i. e., it can not be helped. 



kyii''to' — old man, phiral kyWiadd . 

 Since the recent death of a boy 

 named Kya''to' this Avord is not used, 

 and they say instead e'dalk'i'a, plural 

 e'dalkyaV; literally, "great man," 

 from edal and k'ia. Cf. gyiit'o' and 

 gyiido' . 



Kyii'tse'liii — " Slioit-old- m an , " fro m 

 ki/ii'' to', ige', and hii (?). (See the fol- 

 lowing.) 



Kyii' tse'hii-de p'a — "Short-old- man' s 

 creek;" the extreme head of Cache 

 (Bluff) creek, near Eagle-heart's place, 

 on the reservation; so called from a 

 man named Kyii'tse'hii, who formerly 

 lived there. 



