directions
anėsóvóne p. west. Usage: not well known today Grinnell 1923, Vol. II, says that this term (or, perhaps, with an initial h-, hanėsóvóne)is a ceremonial term for 'south'. See: hánėsóvóne; -ta'ehné; nomȧhéstó'e. Category: directions.
éše'he tsénėxhésemé'éhnėse east. Lit: where the sun appears Variant: éše'he tsénėxhésemé'éhnėstse; Antonym éše'he tsétȧhešeta'ēhnėse ‘west’. See: héséne ‘east (ceremonial)’. Category: directions.
éše'he tsénėxhésemé'éhnėstse east. Lit: where the sun appears Variant: éše'he tsénėxhésemé'éhnėse. See: héséne. Category: directions.
éše'he tsétȧhešeta'ēhnėse west. Lit: where the sun disappears Variant: éše'he tsétȧhešeta'ēhnėstse; Antonym éše'he tsénėxhésemé'éhnėse ‘east’. Category: directions.
éše'he tsétȧhešeta'ēhnėstse west. Lit: where the sun disappears Variant: éše'he tsétȧhešeta'ēhnėse. Category: directions.
hánėsóvóne p. south. Usage: not well known today Grinnell 1923, Vol. II, says this is a ceremonial term for 'south'. See: anėsóvóne; sóvóne; -ta'ehné. Category: directions.
hánȯsóvóne p. east. Category: directions.
heséne p. east. Grinnell 1923, Vol. II, says this is a ceremonial term for 'east'; not well known today;today, the most commonly known term is descriptive, éše'he tsénėxhése-mé'éhnėstse, meaning 'from wherethe sun appears'. This term was also known in Petter's day. There is also an animate ceremonial alternate, Hesénȯhta'héhe. See: éše'he tsénėxhése-mé'éhnėstse ‘east (where the sun appears)’; Hesénȯhtȧhé'héhe ‘East’. Category: directions.
-héstan vti. get s.t. from there, take s.t. from there. É-héstána. He got it from there. Etym: *wentenamwa. See: -hestan ‘take s.t.’.
vta. get s.o. from there, take s.o. from there. É-héstanóho. He got him from there. Tȧ-hestaneha! Take him (there)! Category: move, directions.
-héstátam vta. regard s.o. as from (there). Ná-héstátámo. I consider him to be from (there). Category: cognition, directions.
néh-1 dir. toward. Phon: The high-pitch is used when this (cislocative) morpheme is used in commands. Néh-metsėstse! Give it to me! Néx-hėstánȯhtse! Bring it to me! Nés-ta'ta'enomevemenoo'o he'nétoo'o Open the door for us! Néx-háóénȧhtse! Pray! Néx-hó'hóma closer/on this side (nearer speaker). Antonym ta-. See: neh-. Category: directions.
nėx- dir. toward, hither. allomorph of neh- preceding /h/. É-nėxho'eotsēstse. He brought it here. É-nėxho'ēhne. He came here. See: nėh-. Antonym ta-1. Category: directions.
nomȧhésto'e p. south. Oblique nomȧhésto'e. Ques: nomȧhéstó'e ?? Ques: nómȧhéstó'e ?? Ques: ad hoc morpheme analysis?? See: hánėsóvóne; sóvóné. Category: directions, check.
Noma'é'e na. North Facing Woman. See: Notamé'e. Category: directions, names.
-nómehné vai. go north. É-nóméhne. He went north. See: -nomené; notama; -nómeohtsé. Category: directions.
-nómemé'ehné na. appear from the north. É-nómemé'éhne. He's appearing from the north. See: Nómeōhtse; notāma; Nómemé'éhne; Nómemé'éhnėstse. Category: directions.
-nómeohtsé vai. go north, go with the wind. Category: check. É-nómeōhtse. He went along with the wind. See: notāma ‘north’. Category: directions, wind.
-nómeohtsétó vii. go north. Hóvéhno étató'nėše-nómeohtséto. (The car) barely made it up the north slope. [The Hunter and the Badger.28] Category: directions.
notāma p. north. Antonym nomȧhésto'e ‘south’. See: nóm-; Notamota. Category: directions.
-notama'e'tá vii. face north. typically said of a tepee. É-notama'ē'ta. (The tepee) faces north. See: notāma ‘north’. Category: directions.
-notama'éohtsé vai. face north walking, walk facing north, walk facing the wind. É-notama'éóhtse. He went facing the wind. See: Nómeōhtse; -nómehné; notama. Category: walk, motion, directions.
Notamé'e North Woman. An old blind lady with this name helped the leaders guide the Cheyennes in the long trek north from Oklahoma; even though she was blind she could sense when the soldiers were near. Variant: Notamé'héhe. See: notāma; Noma'é'e. Category: directions, names.
Notamé'héhe na. North Woman. this longer spelling may be preferred to Notamé'e. Variant: Notamé'e. Category: directions, names.
Notameohméseestse vai. Gram: ppl Northern Cheyenne person. Lit: northern-eater Variant: Hotameohméseestse. This word consists of the prenoun notame- 'north'; oh- 'conjunct participle prefix; -mésehe 'eat'; 'third person sg. conjunct ending.' See discussion under Ȯhméseestse. Plural Notaméohmésėhese; AlternatePlural Notaméohmésėhéso. Usage: seldom used by Northern Cheyennes See: Ȯhméseestse; Notameohmésėhétane; -mésehe; -tsėhéstahe; Heévȧhétane. Category: directions, tribes.
Notamota na. North. This is a ceremonial name for the direction north. See: notāma ‘north’. Category: directions, ceremonial.
sétóve hesénȧhéstó'éno naa sóvóne loc. southeast. Category: directions.
sóvóne p. south. Some speakers have recently translated this as 'east' but note that text 1987:208 regards this as 'south'. Antonym notāma. See: nomȧhésto'e; sóve-; hánȯsóvóne. Category: directions.
ta-1 dir. away, translocative directional preverb. With this translocative, the "distance" can be of space or, by semantic extension, time. This preverb indicates that action extends away (especially away from the speaker). Ta-anáestse! Go on! É-tȧ-hémanohe. He went for water. Né-tȧ-héne'enahe tsénėhestómo? Do you remember what I said (back then, at a previous time)? (The temporal distance is indicated here by the ta- on the 'know' verb.) Antonym nėh-. Category: directions.