Vocabulary List of Timucuan Words
The words contained in this vocabulary list are taken from the wonderful book "A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language", by Julian Granberry, The University of Alabama Press. Most of our knowledge of the Timucuan language comes from Friars Francisco Pareja and Gregorio de Movilla, the two major recorders of the Timucua language during the 16th century. Father Paraja (1595) wrote four catechisms and a grammer of the Timucuan language (over 2,000 pages of text).
Two additional catechisms were written by Father Movilla (1635). We wish to extend our gratitude to Julian Granberry and John R. Swanton, who worked so diligently to transcribe and preserve these ties to Florida?s First People. To learn more about Julian Granberry?s efforts to preserve native languages, please find his web site on our links page.
Numbers
- one- yaha, mine, ocora, yo
- two- yaha, qibe, mine
- second- yucha
- three- hapu
- third-hapu
- four- chequeta
- five- marua
- six-mareca
- seven-Piqicha
- eight- piqinqhu
- nine- peqecheqeta
- ten- tuma
- hundred-chupi
- thousand- chupi
Colors
- black- chucu
- white- nayo
- red- pira
- yellow- nali
- blue- lico
- gold- hiyerba, nali
- silver- hiyereba
- green- puya
Time
- day-ela equela, nabucha
- forenoon- uqua
- month- acu (moon)
- night- ilaqe, pilani, nabucho
- sunset- echa
- year- ero
- now- aqio, heqe, cache, qete, leaqe, hito, catoonahabela
- evening- ilaqe
- midnight- fichi
- morning- palani, (na) bucha, becha
- noon- chito, iribo
- winter- ichira
- yesterday- qibo
Animals
- alligator-itori
- animal- hachipile
- ant- suluquita
- anthill- suluquita pahama
- bear- ara
- bird- chulufi
- buzzard- apohola
- claws-qepe
- crane- sicuri
- crow- caca
- deer- honoso
- dog- efa
- dove- obe
- eel- caraca, sea, iyorona
- feather- metele, tilo, cola
- ferret- chiqua
- fox- habe
- male fox- pufi
- flea- ibi
- hare- apichiara
- lion- hiyaraba, yaraha
- panther- hiyaraba, yaraha
- louse- hibe, iqe
- mouse- nibilil
- nest- chepa
- owl- atofa, asacamaco, hitiqire, hororo
- oyster- sicali
- partridge- caya
- plumage- cola
- rabbit- quelo
- rat- nibilil
- snake- elatubasa, iyola, yoroba
- swan- sicuri
- weasel- chique
- whale- uchu
- wolf- banehe
- woodpecker- tinibo
- worm-icho
Tools
- adze- pesola,pulu
- ax- cocho, yahi
- chisel- icho, ihoto
- drum- cane, sula, uli
- fish hook- yabi
- fish weir- acatala, ichali
- hook- obo
- jug- saro
- basket- hachi, canasta
- box- aye
- candle- amara, taca
- cup- ucu
- ladle- quiti
- leather- hani, naha, to
- pottage- oco
- rope-amala, opomo
- snare- uque
- spatula- quiti
- arrow-atulu
- bow- colo
- knife- cocho, picho, pali, pesa
- fish basket- puye
- fish trap- puye
- hoe- pesola, pulu
- iron- hiyerba, yafaraba
- bone-yabi
- boat- tico (canoe)
- cabin- pile
- clay- iqe
- dish- plato
- lance- ipunu
- pot-uli
- pottery- uli
- rosin- tiqui
- spade- pesola, pulu
- spoon-quiti
Foods
- acorn- tucu, aha
- tree bark- anapie, cupa
- beans- saliqi
- brains- sili
- bunch of grapes- bihi
- chestnut- afeta
- chicken- caya
- condiment- tabi
- cook- gisano
- cook fried cakes- quiti
- corn- hola
- first corn- abo pahama, pile, yache(ba)
- cranberry- yucuta
- crop- abara, baca, hola
- dessert- core
- dumpling- chicolata, pilene
- fish- cuyu
- flower- chio
- food- hono, soba
- fruit- cala
- fry- quiti
- gnaw- icaputa
- gourd- chucu
- grape- bihi
- gravy- neha
- grease- amara, neha, uque
- harvest- abara, baca
- heart- cume
- kitchen- hono
- leaf (withered)- asileco
- liver- chofa
- lungs- pielno
- maize- tapola
- make soup- quiti
- meat- soba, picho
- melon- meloni
- melon patch- melonipile
- milk- iquine
- mollusk-melo
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