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.
e'néhove- pv. upriver, upstream. Móhkee'néhovėháa'háhanéhe. The wind must blow up through the valley. [The Journey.193] 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. i·, 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. i·, 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'éhnėse ‘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, hither. 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 is 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. Naa tȧháóhe tósa'e notāma hápó'e mótaéevo'ėstanéhevėhéhe. And he must likewise live somewhere up 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. Etym: *ša·wani 'south, southern'; *ša·wanwi 'the south'. See: nomȧhésto'e; sóve-; hánȯsóvóne. Category: directions.
ta-1 dir. away, translocative directional preverb, thither. 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.