Calendar history of the Kiowa Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 129-444))Mooney, James
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Calendar history of the Kiowa Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 129-444))
Mooney, James
Kiowa Indians; Kiowa language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
eda´se´mk`op--they stole them (horses). Cf. _ä´semtse_.
edo´nmo--they are searching or hunting for something; I search or hunt
for, _gyädo´nmo_.
edo´päñ--they were initiated as _Kâ´itseñko_. Cf. _äo´päñ_.
eet--see _edal_.
e´`gu´--a plant (i. e., something planted to grow from seed or cutting;
not something growing without human aid); from _e_ and _gu´ă_, to plant;
I plant, _gyäte´gu´ă`dă_; plant it! _bäte´gŭ´!_
E´`gua p'a--Chandler creek, on the reservation; literally, "Garden
creek," frome _e´`gu´_ and _p'a_, because the Apache had their principal
cornfields there.
eho´tal--he was killed; I kill him, gyäho´taldă; he killed him,
_äho´tal_; I killed him, _gyäho´tal_ (_gyälho´tl_); they killed us,
_daho´tal_; kill him! _äho´!_ _ho´tăl!_
ek`i´ädă--it sprouted, it has sprouted, it is growing; said of the young
plant when it appears above ground; _gyäk`i´ädă_, growing, sprouting.
Cf. _gyäk`i´ädă_.
E´maä--not translatable; a Kiowa woman, keeper of the _taíme_ since
1894.
E´oñte--a Kiowa man, otherwise known as _Gu´ădal-e´dal_, "Big-red;" the
word may have connection with _eoñ´to_, I like him.
eoñ´ti--I like him. Cf. _Gyai´`koao´ñte_.
E´`pea--"We-(they-)are-afraid-of-him," from _gyäpe´to_; a Kiowa warrior,
who died a prisoner in Florida after 1875.
ES-A-NANCA--see _Ĭsänä´năka_.
_Ĕ´sikwi´ta_ (Comanche)--"brown dung," so called, it is said, from the
color produced by eating piñon nuts in the mountains, or perhaps an
allusion to the appearance of the favorite "mescal bread" of the tribe.
Mescalero Apache; a Comanche name adopted by the Kiowa to designate the
same tribe; sometimes also called _Ätäbĭts_ by the Comanche; under the
name of _Essequeta_ or _Essequeta Apache_, the Kiowa Apache have
sometimes been confounded with them, and the Kiowa sometimes confound
them with the _Ä´tagu´i_ or Lipan.
ESSEQUETA--see _Ĕ´sikwi´ta_.
et--see _edal_.
eta´`ga--they shot it, or them; I shoot, _deta´`bo´_; I shall shoot,
_deta´`tito´_; I shot (either with bow or gun), _deta´`ga_; shoot!
_beta´`de!_
E´tälyidonmo--"He-(they-)hunts-for-boys," from _tä´lyi´_ and _edo´nmo_;
a Florida prisoner in 1875, afterward a student and worker in his tribe.
etku´egan--they brought it dragging (i. e., a head); I drag it, or him,
_deku´eba´_; I bring it dragging, _deku´egan_.
eto´dă.--they (poles) were left standing; I leave it standing,
_deto´di´`to_.
e´tpata--they ate it (ashes); I eat, _gyä`pa´ta_. Cf. _gyäpa´ta_, it is
sprouting.
etpe´--they were afraid, or frightened. Cf. _gyä`pe´to_.
e´zăn, e´zhăn--agent, i. e., Indian agent; corrupted from "agent."
E´zănyă, E´zhănyă --the agency, at Anadarko, Oklahoma, from "agent,"
"agency;" sometimes referred to as _Ägun´tä p'a´-gyă_, "at Washita
river," or _E´zăn-do´i_, "at the agent's house."
FISH-E-MORE--see _T'a`ka´-i-p'o´dal_.
gaa´--an archaic name for crow (now _ma´ñsă´_; cf. _mă´să´_, six), still
used in composition in proper names.
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