Chickasaw Dictionary — US

applicative verb prefix

to go along

to paint

to say

city, town

store

table

to take away

to quit

to hit in (I;II;3)

refrigerator

refrigerator

to remain beside

kitchen

to hide at/in

chair

lamp

to live in

to cut

to run over

daddy longlegs

following

finally

up

preacher

to kill

plague

house

restroom

bedroom

bathroom

house

house

river

bathroom

house

restroom

to say

alligator

to sew

town

years

very

yes

potato

to resemble

to be named after

desk

to live somewhere

fourth

table

to stop

kitchen

chair

birthday

to go

chicken

fried chicken

chicken

tomato

ketchup

bantam (chicken)

egg

to understand

to arrive, to come

a weed

bitterweed

paint

marijuana

later

yard (unit of length)

doctor

Humes spelling of aaloma

room

never

Humes spelling of ámmohmi

to be first

the first one

to mow

dish soap

dishes

to wish

to like

to wish

to produce or bear fruit

fruit

again

To tell

language

to speak, to talk

goodbye

Humes' spelling of anompa

to speak, to talk

to eat

Humes' spelling of apila

to help

Humes' spelling of apissa

To watch

to be straight

grandma

to coat

Humes' spelling of aashoppalaꞌ

to sin

to sin repeatedly

to finally sin

to come down

to lean against

to be third

onion

to be second

To choose

to be born

third

second

and

one of a pair

eleven

nineteen

sixteen

eighteen

seventeen

fourteen

fifteen

thirteen

twelve

to fry

to be fried

to go

to keep stalking

to stalk

to make go

to be one-way

alternative form of ayoppa

alternative form of ayoppachi

to like

to be happy

to worship

to like

to be happy

To like

alternative spelling of ba'

carriage

to make a noise with wood

woodpecker

pants

alternative form of balaꞌ albilhaꞌ

bean

pole bean (US), climbing bean (UK)

to be rolled up

to want

knife

or

alternative form of bichó'lli

to bend, to curve

to bend, to curve

to finally bend, curve

alternative form of biibiꞌ

baby

little baby

beet

to melt

to sit down

Humes' spelling of biniili

a versatile auxiliary verb indicating ability, frequency, or distribution

gnat

to be bundled up

alternative form of abookoshi

Humes' form of banna

to be tall

to have a high-pitched singing voice

to make tall

to make taller

one

to pick the best from a group

to be taller

to be very tall

Humes' spelling of Chahtaʔ

Choctaw

to make sticky

chocolate

dark chocolate

opossum

Cherokee

turkey

June bug

Thanksgiving Day

to buy something

to be sweet

to finally be tall

jelly

Humes' spelling of chipota

baby

son

alternative form of chofalli

alternative form of chofata

God

once upon a time

Humes' spelling of Chikashsha

Chickasaw

full-blooded Chickasaw

Chickasaw language

the Chickasaw governor

Chickasaw Nation

Chickasaw language

Chickasaw (language)

Chickasaw person of the female gender

Chickasaw person of the female gender

although/supposedly … planning/intending to

chili̱saꞌ

chipmunk

to try

yours

child

to give a child up for adoption to

girl

fork

to clean

to be clean

to clean

fly (insect)

blue fly

small fly maggot

rabbit, hare

jackrabbit

swamp rabbit

wild rabbit

jackrabbit

type of rabbit with a blueish fur

to be half drunk

kit, baby rabbit

cottontail (rabbit)

family

house

RV, recreational vehicle

to smile

to be good

Hello!

fox

red fox

hole

gray fox

tobacco

to buy

hog, pig

frog

bullfrog

type of edible frog

toad

Humes' spelling of chokkaꞌ

housefly

Humes' spelling of chokma

Humes' spelling of chola

to buy

to imitate

woman

to shake

to be long

alternative form of faloha

to be whipped

to whip

squirrel

magic

to get rid of

wasp

duck

honey bee

to get dressed

type of snail

spoon

clam

bone

to vote

foshi'

bird

redbird

to wear

you all

to listen to, to hear

skin

to be drunk

ear

donkey (animal)

elephant

elephant

to deceive

red venomous lizard

bat

to kick

a spelling variant

to kick

how are you

to listen

dust devil

large whirlwind

comb (for hair)

intermammary cleft

breastbone

sun

January

March

February

to be … o'clock

clock

to be sunny

fruit fly

winter

autumn

scorpion

type of water creature

grasshopper

butterfly

a type of small bee, hornet or wasp

person

murderer

picture frame

doll

male transvestite

armadillo

world

ape

Humes' spelling of hattak

prostitute

brothel

pond

Humes' spelling of híkkiʔya

Humes' spelling of himona

to ready, get ready

to be big

to stop

to stand

to dance

to be young

now

this morning

now

now

today

right now

right now

to be new

body hair

they

to present

sterile person or animal

to name

type of bug

yes

to shoot repeatedly

to be photographed

to look fitting

representation

horsefly

horsefly

to be named

school

to be written

school

to read

to teach

to read

school

to write

Humes' spelling of homma

to be bitter

to make spicy

to be red

to be pink

to be dark red

red

purple

to roof

to fart

alternative spelling of hobak

alternative form of ho'mi

dependent participle of hoyo

to hunt

to be hungry

to be jealous

to shoot or fire at

to shoot, fire at (while doing something else)

to cause someone or something to shoot at

to be shady

to put up a shade

bumblebee

leech

to braid

to untie

alternative spelling of hottopachi

ash

to hurt

bullfrog

frog

okay

Humes' spelling of haksibish

to keep watching out for

to watch out for

to watch out for (while doing something else)

bodyguard, protector

husband

woman

spinster, old maid

stocking

we

a prefix expressing negation

alternative spelling of inka̱naꞌ

to not have

to be half

to not be

without

hand

finger

thumb

hand

Humes' spelling of ilbak ishki

Humes' spelling of ilbak-oshi

to dream

to shake oneself

we

to die

to kill

death

to shade oneself

mind

to borrow from

to have it seem like

to make camp in

to forget

to tell

wife

to be scared

to eat

food

child

home

to like to

to mark

friend

kinfolk

to have how many?

father

a father-like figure

father

stepfather

to be sorry for

sickness

enemy

sister (of a man)

headhair

grandchild

grandmother

you

small

eye

mother

to drink

Humes' spelling of ishkoboꞌ

head

aunt

you

you

to drive

driver

you

war paint

participle of ishi

family

soap

canvas, awning, tent

alternative form of ishtayya

to drive

to bring to, to bring for

to be big

to be blamed, to be implicated

big

to mourn

to be small

tongue

alternative form of sikopa

louse

alternative form of sikopa

blood

to bleed

bloodsucker

deer

deer

goat

billy goat

mature buck, buck with a full-grown rack

buck (deer)

doe

to hit

pony

horse

giraffe

Shetland pony

mane

mare

giraffe

palomino

bucking bronco

giraffe

nursing mare dam

pony

bucking bronco

wild horse

horsefly

insect

worm

red ant

fire ant

black ant

watermelon seed

to learn

To stumble

to meet

meeting

to keep mixing up

to mix up

to mix (of dry ingredients)

to arrange

sibling

to make a rattling noise

to kill each other

to talk to each other

to see each other

medicine

to be rubbed together

wood

wooden bowl

type of white worm or termite larva

To fall

to hand to

centipede

leg(s)

to be in an intensified state of death

coffee

color

to be difficult

everybody

to move someplace new

six-lined racerunner

at some point, sometime

when

a bit

how

to have been moved

to move around

cold

stickball

yard

to smell like something burning

flea

who

to be how?

who is it?

where?

when

when

to do (something)

why?

why?

why?

why?

how?

how

why

which

how?

how do you say?

where?

to be how?

how much, how many

how much or how many

where?

where

where?

alternative form of kattohmi

how many (of something)?

to be how many?

to be full

no

oh!

white-spotted sawyer beetle

to be strong

beaver

bottle

not

outside

outside

skunk

spotted skunk

skunk

to whistle

to break

cow killer

eastern collared lizard

large maggot

bobcat

To lose

I

yellow

yellow

antenna(s)

to warm something up

a lot

to bleed someone

to be round

to apply to someone's hair

to be stripped of bark

we

I

to plug

mud

dirt house

earthenware ceramic bowl

mud

dirt house

red clay

earthenware jug

red clay

tortoise

plugged

black

brown

black

to be dead

to burn

fire

turtle

wind

To run under

to run

the Creek people

mustard

in different directions

and

and

to say about oneself

and

always

chief

queen (in cards)

jack (in cards)

To come

Mississippi

to say about oneself

all of the

all

To jump

clothes

shirt

shirt

skirt

coat

clothes

package

mathematics

the English language

buttonhole

alternative form of naaishtakallishkin

saint

happy

clothes

jacket

rainbow

younger sibling of the same sex

arrow

rib

something

fish

something

peace

nothing

fruit

teacher, educator

governor

wild animal

to be naughty, mischievous

love

music

what

wolf

coyote

to be foggy (outside)

acorn

oil

to oil

to gin

seed

flesh

bear (animal)

polar bear

cinnamon bear

panda

brown bear

beauty bush

black bear

koala

day

Monday

Wednesday

Tuesday

Thursday

Sunday

Wednesday

Saturday

Saturday

Friday

Sunday

early in the morning

to have breakfast

to remind

sad

to sleep

participle of nosi

under

chin

beard

under

to walk

To bake

To fish

To sleep

yesterday

yesterday

this evening

dog

bird dog

screech owl

to make stand on

alternative form of ho'mi

alternative form of o̠hoshottikachi

to make shade on (something/someone)

to shade

to make shade on

American green tree frog

to live in

to walk in

a variant form of a water-related term

ice

water

freezer

water container

dragonfly

to wake up

blue

blue or green

juice

mink

drunkard

town

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City

night

to make something many colors

swamp rabbit

snow

to snow

To laugh

on

raincoat

tomorrow

mountain

tomorrow

tomorrow evening

tomorrow

to set up (on) something

to be (something)

on (a future time)

alternative form of ho'mi

to be warped, to be bent, to be not straight

daughter

son

the Spanish language

tortilla

Mexico

to smell

four

to be bushy

eagle

hickory nut

pecan

pumpkin

To hunt

flip-flop(s)

flip-flop(s)

to clap

bread

cookie

breadcrumb

frybread

to not do anything

boat

only

mouse

to see, to look at

to show to

to nurse

our

to be hungry

ten

eleven

spool

to borrow, to rent

baby

To bake bread

rubber

sofkee

earthworm

To be slow

To help

mosquito

to straighten

crayfish

lobster

grasshopper

bus

rat

tick (arachnid)

seed tick

seed tick

raccoon

dry

sand

gray

grey

to peel

opossum

hog

opossum

opossum

bacon

lightning bug

ghost

Halloween

shoe

boot

cricket

brown cricket

any black cricket

sugar

sky

cord

Satan

to be cruel

snake

syphilis

to be old

horse

alternative form of sikopa

to thump

chewing gum

dollar

dollar

noon

to end

peach (fruit)

peach

orange

orange

orange juice

apple

five

basket

rock

silver

To sing

to sing

turnip

beet

corn

type of hard, white sweet corn

to talk loudly

To lie (somewhere)

sibling

tea

tired

to send away

flour

wheat

medicine

wagon

to create, to make

three

white

white

cabbage

red elm

tohto

particle used to express actions in the past.

pale

two

lizard

dinosaur

horned lizard

To work

to be summer

summer, summertime

spring, springtime (season)

in the summer, in the summertime

bed

to have a piece broken off

to play ball

three

first

to vote

cow

cattle feed

locust

to fly

calf

chigger

To move

to be fuzzy, to be furry

bubble

to be (something)

earth

alternative form of yakkooki

alternative form of yakkooki

thank you

gopher

uncertain term

mole

locust larva

he

fate

to be that way

bison

To entice

to be imprisoned

mole (animal)

gopher

those

about

may happen

Contrastive object ending

Contrastive object ending

too

too

will happen

will certainly happen

will happen (with conviction)

able to or can

can

should

modal suffix indicating possibility

should

should

just or only

Causative verb suffix

Where is/are X?

remote habitual ending: used to, would.

remote habitual ending: used to, would

but

really or a lot

really, a lot

a suffix for time words referring to future or incomplete events

I

Where is/are X?

remote habitual ending: used to, would

Participle-forming dependent verb suffix

It seems like just one.

I will buy something.

What are you going to buy?

Do you accept paper money?