KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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poli'fikya — hare lip, split lip ; Zo'n-poW- 

 (!/,■;/«, a vacaut place from which a tooth 

 has bceu lost. Cf.polii ili/i. 



Pdli'akya — "Hare-lip;" alias Ku'ijiiHae', 

 ''Thick-blanket,' from Icata and 

 else' ( ?) ; the chief of the Kiowa at the 

 time of the tirst alliance with the 

 Comanche. 



I'ooh-tiah-to-ych-lie (Comanche) — see 

 I'u'lirito'ynhi. 



I'o'omuls (Cheyenne)— see Poho'tne. 



Po'-Si'l — See Tso'kadaliu'gija. 



po'to' or po'tii' — a prong or branch ; 

 a'po'to', a forked pole, especially of the 

 medicine lodge ; a table fork is called 

 gi'u-tson'i, "meat awl."' 



Pii'iiiito'ijabi (Comanche) — " Iron-moun- 

 tain ; " a Comanche signer of the treaty 

 of 1867, where the name appears as 

 " I'ooh-yah-to-yeh-be.'' 



Quay-ham-kay — ' ' Quay -ham - kay , The 

 Stone Shidl;" the name of a Kiowa 

 warrior painted by Catlin in 1834, as 

 given by the artist. It can not be 

 identified. Cf. k'o'daU'tiloii. 



sa'ba — stingy. 



Sa'bfi' — see Do'ho'n. 



sabin'a— quiver; sometimes called ii'go- 

 hi'iml-d'-i, "feather case." The quiTer 

 is made of panther skin, or of Mexi- 

 can leather, never of deer or antelope 

 skin. 



sa'dal — (1) masticated food in the 

 stomach, whence also inieslhic, helli/ 

 (see also titi); (2) having, furnished 

 with, in compositicm. Cf. Gtinsa'clalte. 



sii'dalgu'at — sweat-house, from aa'dal- 

 h-p. 



sa'dalka'ni — the manifold or stouiach- 

 rind of a butl'alo or cow, from sadaJ 

 and kaiii. 



Sa'dalkafii k'op — "manifold uinuutaiu;" 

 the Black hills, South Dakota. 



sa'dfilso'mte— weasel ; literally, "belly 

 rubber, or dragger, '' from sadal and 

 aomin. 



Sa'dalso'mte-k'i'ago — see Semiit. 



sii'daltep — sweat (noun). 



Sa1)I)Y-yo — see Sn'riijo. 



sil'he — blue, green; aiVhe-ko'fiki/a, dark 

 blue. 



sai or saigya — winter, year; plural, aiita 

 (see page 366). 



Saitkopeta, Paul — see Se' tk' o' pii: 



Siiki'bo(-go) — Sauks. from their jiroper 

 name, Onsa'ki or Sakl. 



Sii/k'odal Gu'fidal Doha' — "Cheyenne 

 red bluft;" the Red hills on the North 

 Canadian above Fort Reno. Oklahoma. 

 Cf. Gii'ndal Do'hn'. 



sa'kon — buffalo chips; sa'gya, dung. 



8a''kon-y;i'daIdii or Sii-ya'daldii — "buf- 

 falo-chip hill ;" a hill or mountain near 

 Salt fork or White-river fork of lirazos 

 river in Texas (see Ahlnii p'a). 



Sa''kon-ya'daldii p'a — "bufi'alo chi]>-liill 

 river;" Duck creek, a branch of Salt 

 fork or White-river fork of Brazos 

 river, Texas; also called JhiTi'n p'a, 

 "cedar creek.'" 



aii-kop — midwinter, from sai and kt/pa'- 

 iii(iya. 



Sii'kop p'a — see A'gd'nti. 



Sii'k'ota — Cheyenne; singular, Sa'k'odal, 

 etymology doubtful. Also called 

 T'a'-sep, "pierced-ear," or j-<iii'al, 

 "painted fe.athers," from the fact that 

 for their arrows they always used wild- 

 turkey feathers, which are transversely 

 striped. Their Comanche name, Pd'- 

 gaxii'ro, denotes "striped arrows," .and 

 the tribal sign, uuide bj- drawing the 

 right index finger across the left, seems 

 to convey the same idea. 



Sii'k'ota-ii'oto'n-de p'a — "creek where 

 the Cheyenne were massacred;" a 

 northern tributary of North fork of Red 

 river, the second below Sweetwater 

 creek, in F county, Oklahoma; so 

 called from a massacre there in 

 1837, q. V. 



sii'lii'ti — hot, from yyiisii'da!, it is hot. 



siin — little; an archaic form, in cmupo- 

 sition, is fan, q. v. 



sji'ne' — snake; siinc'hiri, rattlesnake, lit- 

 erally, "principal snake." 



Sii'ne' p'a — "snake creek;" Deep creek, 

 entering Cache creek, south of Fort 

 Sill, on the reservation. 



sii'ngya — an overhanging bluff or escarp- 

 ment. Cf. Pdsdngyd. 



Siiuko — see Gyai''ko. 



sa'omhiipii — blood came up from him, 

 i. e., ho had a hemorrhage; om, a drop 

 of blood; oiikya, blooil. 



Sa-p.v-GA — see Se'tpa'go. 



sa'piiu — ashes. 



sa/podal— a mythic cannibal monster; 

 hence also, from its human exjiression, 

 an owl, properly mahi'ii. 



Sa'podal-a'daltou p"a— "owl-heail creek," 



