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p'c''i;y.i— tUt'.v fell; ji\''ijya, it is falling 

 (iis mill, suuw. or sliowrr of mi'teors); 

 t'o'cial 2)'e'<laldu'to, it is snowing. 



pen — turkey; plural pefi'ko; pen nun, 

 ([uail. i. 0., "little turkey." 



Pen p'a— "turkey creek." (1) A small 

 soutliwesteni branch of Elk creek (of 

 Niirth fork), in H county, Oklahoma; 

 (2) a southern tributary of North fork 

 of Keil river, in Oreor county, Okla- 

 homa, beyond Jlount Walsh. 



jiena — sugar, eautly ; it is the same in 

 the Comanche language, from which 

 the Kiowa may have adopted it. 



Peiiii p'a — "sugar creek;" sugar ereck 

 on Wichita reservation ; sometimes 

 also called Do'gu'at p'a, "Wichita 

 creek." 



Pe'niitCka (Comanche)— see A'-t/yatko. 



pep — bush, tree; see also ii ; gijiipe''hon, 

 it is bushy or thickety. 



P(^yi — " 8and-child," from pc and i; a 

 young Kiowa man who committed 

 suicide in 188()-87. 



pia — tire. Cf. piii. 



piii- eating; food, pi'iingya; I eat, 

 gijapa'to. Cf. pin, gi/iipa'ta, and 

 illliijx'i'lo. 



Piii-ki'ada — Christmas; literally, "eat- 

 ing day." 



Pi'alai'bo — see Pi'urai'bo. 



Pi'alai'bo-de p'a — see O'nkon'on j>'a. 



I'i'iinii'vonit (Comanche) — " Big-looking- 

 glass ; " a Comanche chief and delegate 

 to Washington in 1892. 



I'i arai'bo (C o mane he) — "Big - wh ite- 

 iiian,'' from pi'ip, big, and lo.ivo, a 

 white man ; the Comanche name of in- 

 terpreter E. L. Clarke, corrupted by 

 the Kiowa to Pi'alai'ho. 



pi'ata'nga — see gui'isc'to. 



pi'aya — summit, top. 



Pi'aya-do'-tse'dalte — see K'o'p-tai'-ilo'- 

 tse'-daltc. 



pi'cikiit (Pawnee) — winter. 



pi'ho' — peninsula, bend in a river or 

 coast. 



Pi'ho' — "peninsula;" a beud iu Ihe 

 Washita a short distance below Wal- 

 nut creek and the Wichita line. A 

 favorite place for the Sun dance. See 

 Summers 1839 and 1S85. 



Pi'sema'i — see T'a'ka'-i-ji'o'dal. 



po — trap; spider web. Cf. p'o. 



p'ri — beaver. Cf.^o. 



P'o p'a -"beaver river;" (1) North Ca- 

 nadian river and its upper branch, 

 Heaver creek, in Oklahoma; (2) Otter 

 creek, branch of North fork, on the 

 reservation; (3) Beaver creek, east of 

 Fort Sill, on the reservation. 

 P'o ji'a siin — "little beaver creek," 

 Little Beaver creek, east of Fort Sill, 

 on the reservation. 

 Po'baro — see Te'giiiigo. 

 ji'odal (i)lural, p'o'ta') — worm, reptile, 

 insert, snake; used for both creeping 

 and Hying insects, including tlies, and 

 occasionally for snakes, but not for 

 turtles. For many insects they liave 

 no specilic name. 

 P'o'dal-a'dalte — see Zon'tam. 

 P'o'dalii'nte — "Coming -snake," from 

 p'odal, ad, and te; a Kiowa warrior 

 killed in Greer county, Oklahoma, iu 

 1891. Abbreviated P'oUi'i'iie. 

 P'o'dalk'i'iigo or P'o'dalgyii'ko — see 



djiai'ko. 

 p'o'dal(-ta) — spoiled, usele.ss, deformed, 



split, as Ma'-p'o'dal, "split-uose." 

 po'dodal — a variety of bird. 

 Po'ilodal(-te') — a Kiowa warrior in 



1S79-S0. 

 Poho'me — The Kiowa name of .John 

 Smith, a noted trader about 1860-1867, 

 and Government interpreter for the 

 Cheyenne, who called him Po'omuts, 

 " Gray-blanket;" or " Saddle-blanket," 

 whence his Kiowa name, 

 poho'n-ii — walnut tree; poho'n-<\ a wal- 

 nut. A woman with her nose cut off, 

 the former punishment for adultery, 

 is called jjo/io'«Hi(V, plural poho iiiiia i mo, 

 from the fancied resemblance of the 

 mutilated nose to .a split walnut. A 

 man so disfigured would be called 

 k'i'nUhi/um. 

 Poho'n-ii p'a — "walnut creek;" Scout's 

 creek, a tributary of North fork, near 

 Fort Elliott, in the Texas panhandle. 

 P'oliiu'te — see P'o'dald'nte. 

 poliiu'yi — ralibit; ithiTH^, poUi'iiy up ; evi- 

 dently connected with j^oU'i'ikija, q. v., 

 a pet name is tsu'ngi, plural, IsaTtyui. 

 Polii'nyi-kato'n — " Rabbit-shoulder; " a 



Kiowa calendar keeper, now dead. 

 Polii'uyup — "Rabbits ; " the lowest order 

 of the Kiowa military organization; 

 sometimes called Tsd'iiiiiii, another 

 word for "rabbits." 



