Dictionary of Cherokee Terms

agiyosi - I'm hungry

aneja - ball game

ani-gilohi - long hair people

ani-yunwi-ya - the little people

Ayuh - personal pronoun I

Elikwa - enough or that's enough

Etsi - mother

Hlesdi - stop, quit it

Howa - okay, all right

iya - pumpkin

jola - tobacco

Kutani - priest ani + kutani - priests

Nihina - and you?

Nunnihi & yunwi tsunsdi - little people

openauk - potato

Osd' / osda - good, well

Sogwili - horse

Tohigwu - I am well

Tohiju - how are you?

tsalagi - the Cherokee people

Uh - yes

Unaka - white person

Watoli - penis

yona - bear

yunwi amaiyinehi - water dweller (little people)


Birdtown, Wolftown, Painttown, Yellowhill the 4 extant of the 7 original Cherokee villages