14 CHAMBERLIN— PLACE AND PERSONAL NAMES [January 3, 



Other names refer to peculiarity of manner or conduct or to 

 some marked personal habit. Thus a man who for many years in- 

 veterately used a peculiar pipe in smoking, even putting his cigarettes 

 into the bowl and smoking them through it, was named Toip, 

 " Pipe " ; a woman who weeps much because all her near relatives 

 are dead is known as Ya'ki-khi, from ma-ya'ga, ma-ya'gi-kin, to 

 weep or cry ; a woman of happy disposition who smiles much is 

 Pai'yd-nuk, " Rippling or Laughing Water " ; and another of opposite 

 disposition is named Tu'o-bai, apparently from the root seen in 

 tu'o-blt, dark, black, and in tu'o-huk, angry, with the addition of hai, 

 abounding in; and Tai'bo-Jinni is one name of a boy who is noticed 

 especially and admired by white people {tai'bo, white person). 



Some names are taken from places and materials. Examples are 

 An'tsi, meaning a flat without grass, and Ai'bun-pa, a stream and 

 place in Deep Creek, men's names; and Pa'ri-gzvl-tsfip, mud, and 

 Gzi'a'na-sc, sand, women's names. Names of various other objects 

 are frequently applied to persons. Such are Po'go-nup, currant; 

 Kun, fire ; Mu'nai, from Mil, moon ; and Ta'bi, sun, the latter the 

 name of the last chief of the tribe. The same name was a common 

 one for chiefs of other tribes as well and seems to have been re- 

 stricted to such persons. An interesting case that came to the 

 writer's attention was in the naming of twin children, one a boy and 

 the other a girl. The boy was called Sa'gfip, one of the willows, 

 and the girl Pi'o-ra, sweet-pea, one form of which lives among and 

 climbs upon the willows, the two names being selected because of 

 this association. 



Animal names are borne both by men and by women. These 

 names are frequently chosen without any obvious association or 

 particular reason ; but in other cases they are given because of a per- 

 sonal trait or feature's suggesting the animal concerned, as when 

 an active, romping girl was named Miits'em-bi-a, mountain sheep. 

 Other examples of names of this type are Wu'dl-tci, black bear, a 

 man; Hoi, chipmonk, a boy, and Pui'ji-ru, a bird, applied to a 

 woman. 



Finally, a considerable number of names are taken from other 

 Indian tongues and, at present, also from English. Thus from the 



