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Kanosh Ute is Ki'un-gn'a, a woman's name ; irom Paiute, Ai'piih, 

 a boy's name which means simply " boy " ; and from English, Wi'ni, 

 Winnie, and NVna, Nina, Ta'di-cn, for Italian, given to a boy 

 thought to resemble an Italian, and PVgi-stun, one of two names 

 borne by a woman, this one having originally been coined in jocular 

 way from the English " big stone " in reference to her large size.* 



As might be expected from the manner in which personal names 

 commonly originate, the same person frequently receives several in 

 the course of his life. The name borne in childhood perhaps in most 

 cases is changed in later life; while the name of an adult may be 

 suspended or used interchangeably with another given in conse- 

 quence of some newly acquired characteristic or of some event of 

 importance in his life. Thus the man mentioned previously as bear- 

 ing the name Toip has also been known as Nain'pa-cti-a, " He who 

 drags his foot " or " Foot dragger," since through an accident he 

 lost one foot and has had to wear a wooden substitute which leads 

 him to shuffle in walking. Various other cases are noted in the 

 list of names below. 



The following list includes chiefly the names of persons living, 

 or recently living, in the Skull Valley branch, though a number of 

 those of members of the Deep Creek colony are included. 



Ai'ba-pa. A man. The name is sometimes heard in the etymologic- 

 ally more correct form Ai'biiii-pa and also as Ai'pa-bi, the trans- 

 fer of vovk^els or entire syllables in this way being a common 

 phenomenon in Gosiute. The name means " Clay water " and 



^ In similar spirit originated the name PVgln-gzva-ci, by which a white 

 woman, who as a girl played much with the Indian children and learned their 

 language simultaneously with her own, has for thirty-five years been known 

 to the Gosiute. Her given name was Tillie, and that of her younger sister 

 Lillie; but as the Gosiute have no 1 sound in their language, they find it 

 difficult to pronounce English words containing it, especially when initial, and 

 usually replace it by t or d (cf. Ta'di-cn given above) ; and hence, they pro- 

 nounced both these names alike. To distinguish one from the other Tillie, 

 the elder, was in speaking to white people mentioned as "big (pig) Till" 

 and the younger as " tiddy (little) Till." Big Till or, as commonly sounded, 

 Pig Till, soon suggested Pig Tail and was then promptly translated into the 

 Gosiute as Pi'gin-gzva-ci, from pig, -\~ n, possessive, -)- gwa'ci, tail. 



