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From: MSN NicknameWitchway_Pawnee  in response to Message 1Sent: 8/23/2007 5:04 AM

S

sahungka gelah or shoghila - red fox
sapa - black
schila - old
shakowan - council fires
shah-y-ela - those who speak a different tongue (the Lakota name for the Tsististas)
shaychatungka - wolverine
sheo - sage hen
shinte or sinte - tail
Shinte Galeska - Spotted Tail
shunkaha - wolf (somtimes shunktokecha or Shunkahmahneetu)
Shunke Canku - Iron Horse (i.e. train)
shunke (or s'unka) - dog
shunke wakan - horse (literal translation - holy or sacred dog)
shunke-kan - pinto
sicha - bad
sinkpaylah - muskrat
sipawicayaska - beetle
ska - white
s'kipipi -chickadee
slol yapi - the people
sni - negative, not
sosa - muddy
sosho -snake
sota - many
Susuni - Shoshone (or snake tribe)

T

to - his
tah �?moose
tshcha - deer
tah chasala or tahheencha - antelope (pronghorn) tahheenchala - white tailed deer
tahhenchala - mule deer
tahunsa - cousin
tajuska - ant
taku-skan - spirit, living force
tanagila - humming bird
tanka - great, big, or bull
tanke - sister
tannicala tusweca - dragonfly
tashina - robe
tashina pte - buffalo robe
Tashunke Witko - Crazy Horse (A literal translation is His Dog is Enchanted but in this case the "wakan" is dropped from "horse" and people would still know the meaning.)
tasina - shawl, blanket
tashnahhayhotah - ground squirrel
tatanka - buffalo bull
Tatanka lyotake - Sitting Bull (his name is really Buffalo Bull Sitting)
Tatanka Wapahun - Buffalo Bull Society
tinza - power, strength
Tioheynuka Wi - January (moon of frost in the lodge)
tipsila - prairie turnip
tiyospaye - family group (band)
to - blue
to (toh) - a vigorous affirmative like "damn right."
Tokala - Kit Fox Society
tokalu �?fox
toniktuka hwo? - How are you?
tonkalla - mouse
tonwan - spirit, bad spirit
toskala - woodpecker
tuka - but
tunkaschila - grandfather
tunkes - hot stones

U

Umi or Yum - Whirlwind
unchi - grandmother
Unshimalam ye oyate - Have mercy on me

W

wabluska - insects
wacca pella - stream
wacekiyayo - pray
wachin ksapa yo - listen to me - be attentive
wachpanne - poor, needy
wacipi - dance
wackikun or waschichin - white man
wagachun - cottonwoods
Waga Wakpa - Swimming Bird river ( Laramie river)
waglesksun - turkey
waglula - woodgrub or maggot
wahi - I come, I am coming
wahinhayya - gopher
wakan - holy, sacred
Wakan Tanka - Great Spirit
wakikunza - camp leader
wakina - thunder
Wakincuzas - pipe owners (village headmen or councilers)
wakinyan - thunder powers or lightning
Wakinyan Tanka - Thunderbird
Wakpa - river
wakon-ya - springs (where water is born)
Wamanuncha - Prince of Thieves (especially applied to Custer)
wan - surprise
wana - one or now
wanagi - ghost, spirit
Wanagi Tacaku - Spirit Path
wanagitakimimila - moth
Wanagi Yata - Place of Souls

wanbli or anunkasan - eagle
Wanbli Galeska - Spotted Eagle
Wanbli Luta - Red Eagle
wanichi - no good
Wanicokan Wi - December (midwinter moon)
Waniyetu Wi - November (winter moon)
waniyetula - winter
waniyetula wowapi - winter count
wapiye - medicine man (a curer with herbs only - no spiritual power)
washtay or washte - good
was'te (pronounced wash-tay) - greetings!
wasichu or washitu - bad medicine, white man
wasin - here
wa'sin - frog
wasiyuta el unpi - those who live among the whites - the loaf around the fort people
wasna - pemmican
Wasutan Wi - August (moon when all things ripen)
wayo - true
Waziah - Giant God of the North
weecha or wichitigulegha - raccoon
Whope - earth principle
wi - sun
wicasa - man
wicasha - an important man
wicasha wakan - a holy man, a visionary
wicasha yatapika - a shirtman
wichashita - chief
Wickmunke - Rainbow God (also a trap)
wicksemna - ten
Wicokannanji Wi - July (middle moon)
winkte - half man
Wipazuka Waste Wi - June (moon when the chokecherries ripen)
witko or whte - enchanted, magical, crazy
Wiwanyag Wachipi - Sun Dance
wochangi - power
wonamayin - mistake
Wotawe - Oglala buffalo society
woya - story


Y

yamina - three
Yanpa - the Spirit of the east
yaspapi - the time of the bitten moon (first half of new moon, last half of old moon)
yata - place
Yata - the Spirit of the west.
yeosh palay - clans, tribes
yunke-lo - death
yuwipi - medicine man or healer

Z

zeecha - squirrel (red)
zintka - birds
zunta - honest
zuya - warpath