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As is in the chart above, there are three syllable structure types in Choctaw: light, heavy, and super heavy. Possible syllables in Choctaw must contain at least one vowel of any quality. [9] Syllables cannot end with a consonant clusters CC. However, there is an exception with the structure *(C)VCC if a word in Choctaw ends with the suffix /-t ...
Animals figure significantly in Choctaw mythology, as they do in most Native American myth cycles. For example, in Choctaw history, solar eclipses were attributed to black squirrels, and maize was a gift from the birds. [9] Heloha (thunder) and Melatha (lightning) were responsible for the dramatic thunderstorms.
Bashi – from the Choctaw phrase bachaya, meaning "line" or "row". Bogue Chitto – from the Choctaw phrase book chito, meaning "big creek". [16] Boligee – from the Choctaw phrase boolitusha, meaning "to strike and cut into pieces". [17] Cahaba – from the Choctaw phrase oka-uba, meaning "water from above". [18] Shared with the Cahaba River.
The Choctaw name Ponchatoula means "flowing hair", arrived at by the Choctaw as a way of expressing the beauty of the location with much moss hanging from the trees. "Ponche" is a Choctaw word meaning location, an object, or a person . See the eponymous Ponchatoula Creek.
Today, Choctaw people are enrolled in four federally recognized tribes: the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana, and the Yowani Choctaws enrolled under the confederacy of the Caddo Nation. [4] Choctaw descendants are also members of state-recognized tribes. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Chokma (a word meaning "good", saying chokma as a greeting can also imply a question of how one is doing) I'm well. I'm very well. I'm alright. I'm not well. The prefix "An-" implies that the speaker is referring to themselves. The suffix "-kinni" and the word "ooba" refer to the level of "wellness" that they find themselves in. Anchokma ...
Words of Nahuatl origin have entered many European languages. Mainly they have done so via Spanish. Most words of Nahuatl origin end in a form of the Nahuatl "absolutive suffix" (-tl, -tli, or -li, or the Spanish adaptation -te), which marked unpossessed nouns. Achiote (definition) from āchiotl [aːˈt͡ʃiot͡ɬ] Atlatl (definition)
The word Choctaw (also rendered as Chahta, Chato, Tchakta, and Chocktaw) is possibly a corruption of the Spanish chato, meaning flattened, in allusion to the tribe's custom of flattening the heads of infants. [48] [49] Noted anthropologist John Swanton, however, suggests that the name belonged to a Choctaw leader. [50]