Muscogee (Creek) Dictionary

talv-svokvta:l-a-sáwka

🔊nounFloridacoconut palm, coconut

talvpeta:lapí

🔊nouncorn cob

tapho-tá:phoAttaches to any categorysuffixwide (used in compounds)

tarēstá:ɬ-i:-s

🔊will be

tarkvHtá:ɬka

🔊nouncotton cloth

tarrahkvseetartahkv

tartahkvta:ɬtáhka, -ɬáhka, taɬtáh-nouncottonwood (Populus deltoides Marsh.)ortarrahkvtvrtahkvH, R

tartakvGrta:ɬtá:kanounOldercatbird

tasahceseetasahcē

tasahcēHta:sahc-í:, -sáhc-inounspring (the season)Tasahcat estvmvn nvkvftvrētē?Where will the meeting be in the spring? (1899a)ortasahce

Tasahce-Rakkota:sahci-ɬákkonounApril

tasahcetvta:sahc-itáverbto become springMomen tasahcat...Then in the spring... (H)

Tasahcuceta:sahc-ocínounMarch

tasecetvta:sic-ítaverbto jump, leap (of three or more){I}seetashoketvtasketv

tasecicetvta:siceyc-itá

🔊verbto make (one) jump

tashoketvta:shok-íta

🔊verbto jump, leap (of two){I}‘Tokvs!’ mahkin, tashokeyvrēs.I’ll say ‘Now!’ and we’ll both jump. (H)seetasecetvtasketv

Taskēketa:skí:ki

🔊noun1Tuskegee: a Muscogee tribal town2a town formerly located 15 miles northwest of Okmulgee in southeastern Creek Co., Okla.3a Baptist church in Eufaula, Okla.

Taskēke Akensata:ski:ki-a:kinsá:

🔊nounTuskegee Arkansas: a Muscogee tribal town

Taskēke Kvnēteta:ski:ki-kaní:ti

🔊nounTuskegee Canadian: a Muscogee tribal town (merging with Tuskegee Arkansas in 1890 as Tuskegee)

tasketvta:sk-itá

🔊verbto jump, leap (of one){I}...svtvpe hueran vwolicat tasiket......he got close to where the persimmon tree stood and jumped... (H)seetasecetvtashoketvderived forma-aktasketvvatasketva:-ta:sk-itá

🔊verb1to jump up (of one){I}...cerakko tat atasiket eslētkvtēs....the horse jumped up and ran off with him. (H)antonymohtasketv2to jump off, jump down (of one)...atasiket letikis....I jumped down [from the tree] and ran. (H)astasketva:-s-ta:sk-itá

🔊verbto jump up with (something on oneself or in the hand, etc., of one)ratasketvɬa:-ta:sk-itá

🔊verbto go and jump off (of one)etohtasketv(i)t-oh-ta:sk-itá

🔊verbto jump over, jump across (of one)raktasketvɬ-ak-ta:sk-itáverbto go jump down into (a pool, etc., of one)...cvto-rakko ocvkēn raktasken......it jumped down where there were boulders... (H)rastasketvɬa:-s-ta:sk-itá

🔊verbto go jump off with (something)ratohtasketvɬa:-t-oh-ta:sk-itá

🔊verbto jump back over (something, of one)

taskuecetvta:skoyc-itá

🔊verbto make (one) jump

tat-ta:t(i)

🔊a word adding mild focus to a preceding phrase, often to imply contrast or to resume an established topicMv opunvkv tat ę̄ oketvt omēs komvyēt os cē.Those words are just talk, I think. (1890a)Mocv tat estvn vrekot takliket omvrēsThis time he is not to go anywhere and to stay inside. (1915)Yvmv tat enokketv tetąyēt os…Here there is much sickness. (1898)Hvfe-rakkon mv tan enhompetsken omat, hē̜rēs.If you eat the thigh first, it will be good. (H)ortateseeon omat

tatefull form oftat

tatētá:t-i: < -t ô:m-ati:

🔊adjective1the late, the deceasedcvpuse tatēmy late grandmother2the former, which had beenehvpo tatētheir former campMomis cvhocefkv tatēn vnhuehkaket omvrēs.But they must call me by my former name. (H)

tawetvHta:w-itá

🔊verbto fend off, put up a defense

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