Extinct Native American language
Adai (also Adaizan , Adaizi , Adaise , Adahi , Adaes , Adees , Atayos ) is an extinct Native American language that was spoken in northwestern Louisiana .
Classification [ edit ] It was once proposed that there may be a connection between Adai and the nearby Caddoan languages , but this now seems unlikely.[2]
Vocabulary [ edit ] Adai is known only from a list of 275 words from 1804 by John Sibley.[3] [2]
gloss
Adai
fire
nang
water
holcat
earth
capăt
air
gavecăt
wind
solette
sky
ganick
sun
naleen
moon
nachavat
star
otat
light
cahachet
darkness
hachaoosto
day
nestack
night
arestenet
cold
hastalza
smoke
sewot
cloud
sowie
fog
sawiatto
rain
ganic
hail
hiechuck
ice
hăhing
frost
hatsuck
dew
helgat
rainbow
cochakee
thunder
nacotrine
lightning
newiche
yesterday
woncha
today
naleaton
tomorrow
ansteete
a day
nallenachus
a month
ponachus
a year
ovetsnachus
spring
hoasang
summer
weetsuck
autumn
hăstal neetsoock
winter
henawnck
a man
haasing
a woman
quaechuke
a boy
tallahache
a girl
quoatwistuck
a child
tallahaning
father
kewanick
mother
amanie
brother
gasing
sister
nasing
husband
hasekino
wife
quochekino
son
tallehennic
daughter
quolasinic
the body
stieng
the head
tochae
the hair
catatuck
the beard
tosocat
the faced
annack
an eye
analca
the nose
wecoocat
the cheek
ampachochuk
chin
teaskuck
lip
wacachuck
mouth
wacatcholak
tooth
awat
tongue
tenanat
ear
calat
neck
hautoleat
arm
walcat
wrist
sickolat
hand
secut
finger
okinsin
belly
noeyack
back
sahaocat
side
soleot
bubby
acut
nipple
actonè
thigh
otack
leg
ahasuck
foot
nocal
toe
notocat
skin
polac
nails
sicksapasca
bone
wahacut
blood
pchack
life
waaton
death
oeying
food
capisting
meat
kosing
fat
taanack
lean
ahcanick
bread
okhapin
Indian corn ocasuck
milk
haplecut
egg
oalaken
a house
coochut
buffalo
haapan
elk
wakhanissie
deer
wakhine
bear
solang
wolf
akalasco
panther
hieanne
wildcat
ocashine
polecat nowat
fox
yanostan
beaver
culawa
raccoon
angalasto
opossum
wasehat
hare
awaine
squirrel
onack
flying squirrel paachan
mole
ainolack
a bird
washang
an eagle
ochuck
a hawk
tiang
owl
onack
turkey
owachuck
swan
teotoka
wild goose
nicknicka
duck
ahuck
turkey buzzard aspachuack
raven
anak
crow
antocock (anlocock)
blackbird tehalhuck
crane
cuhat
pigeon
anchocat
pheasant newatocat
partridge newan
mockingbird waccocochin
redbird yatochosto
snake
hostuck
lizard
annuila
butterfly
washep
fly
ganetso
fish
aesut
frog
halonloka (halontoka)
gold
selhack
silver
stawa
copper
holnasak
a stone
ekseka
wood
mang
gum
wastocha
a mountain
tolola
hill
newanah
valley
steluck
sea
aatack
lake
aatalkon
pond
holcata
river
yawichat
creek
yacuck
a spring
holcastalga
grass
hasack
a tree
tanack
pine
tanquechat
cedar nooktanuck
sycamore heohè
ash toltenna
elm napstein
beech hancaptin
birch caoluck
maple wieack
oak pantana
chestnut hangan
hickory tampchasuck
walnut nahattonie
locust nohat
mulberry etalenno
a vine
colac
tobacco
hackhuck
joy
olaha
sorrow
cachtiek
Adjectives [ edit ]
gloss
Adai
white
testaga
black
hatona
green
naetsa
blue
ostonga
yellow
neetsack
red
pechasat
good
awiste
bad
ashawè
large
tocat
small
enechet
high
alonie
low
hatishtinet
broad
walack
narrow
cooatechuck
old
hansnala
young
tallahasin
new
colisco
hard
toosca
soft
yolaca
sweet
piscacha
sour
chacuck
bitter
yaweiling
hot
welchuck
cold
hostalga
dry
tollooso
wet
walloco
strong
olack
weak
okesack
pretty
alwoinie
ugly
chawack
sick
kistana
brave
hackhing
cowardly
tewani
wise
acknossese
foolish
achiskiet
Pronouns [ edit ]
gloss
Adai
I
hicatuck
you
innaluak
he
nassicon
she
estuck
they
ostachan
this
attack
that
natack
gloss
Adai
to eat
okeach
to drink
hann
to sleep
nican
to laugh
heike
to cry
newaskè
to sing
havetoo
to whistle
yastoo
to smell
nescon
to hear
henaasack
to see
watuck
to speak
cocheek
to walk
enacoot
to run
hehi
to stand
hintoco
to sit
hetachelsa
to lie down
connie
to smoke a pipe
hatchhunk
to love
cosetan
to hate
hieska
to strike
ecanhack
to kill
yoeick
to dance
nasan
to jump
yestook
to fall
yeahtack
to break
cheeceek (cheereek?)
to bend
pasquoque
Numerals [ edit ]
gloss
Adai
1
nancas
2
nass
3
colle
4
tacache
5
seppacan
6
pacanancus
7
pacaness
8
pacalcon
9
sickinish
10
neusne
11
cooscosnawa
12
coawaconnos
13
coescoescola
14
coescoestacahce
15
coescoesspacanas
16
coescoespacana
17
coescoespalcol
18
coescoespaciness
19
coescoessickiness
20
neusnieanagas
20
coescoesnagas
30
coescoesnass
40
coescoescola
50
coescoestathata
60
coescoesipagan
70
coescosepanas
80
coescoeshana
90
coescoespalcola
100
coescoessikiness
200
neusnicola
300
neusnicol
400
coscosnagas
500
coscosnassa
600
coescoescolla
700
coescoestacataha
800
coescoesipacanis
900
coescoespacanis
1000
quosquospanis
gloss
Adai
yes
cola
no
ieska
Notable places language was spoken [ edit ] References [ edit ]
^ Adai at MultiTree the Linguist List ^ a b Grant, Anthony P. 1995. John Sibley's Adai vocabulary: a contribution to Caddoan Lexicography? Paper presented at 1995 Siouan-Caddoan Conference, Albuquerque. 15pp. (Contains the entire vocabulary of Adai from MS in American Philosophical Soc.)
^ Sibley, John. 1804. A vocabulary of the Adaye or Adaize Indians . Manuscript. (See also Mithridates Vol. 3, part 3., p. 278.)
Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509427-5
Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X. External links [ edit ]
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