monsters
axe na. land monster. Similar to rhinoceros. This is a land monster. Méhne is a water monster. Usage: obsolescing Plural ȧxeho; Obviative ȧxeho. Etym: cf. PA *pešiwa ‘lynx; bobcat’; cf. PA *pešehkiwa ‘wood buffalo’. See: méhne ‘water monster’. Category: monsters.
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hahpanováhe na. a kind of monster, crocodile. Lit: one who clamps (down) This monster was probably so named because of its fearsome clamping jaws. Category: monsters.
hestanováhe na. life taker. a kind of monster. Plural hestanováheo'o. Category: monsters.
héstova'kéhe na. two-headed monster. See: héstova'éhe; héstóvátóhke. Category: monsters.
héstóvátóhke na. two-faced being. Some kind of monster; it had a face in front and one in back. See: -héstoveotse. Synonym héstova'éhe. Category: monsters.
hestovonenéhotóá'e na. double-row-of-teeth monster, short faced bear. Lit: double-row-of-teeth buffalo This was some kind of monster. BodyPartMedial -onené. See: hotóá'e; méhne. Category: monsters.
ma'heónėhóva na. mysterious beast. a kind of monster. See: hōva ‘animal’. Category: monsters.
ma'xėhahpanováhe na. big monster. This is one of several monsters for which Cheyennes had names. Lit: big one who clamps (down) Category: monsters.
méhne na. water serpent, water monster. (another recording) seems especially to be associated with water in Cheyenne cosmology; this is one of several monsters which were important in Ch. traditional cosmology; other monsters were the axe and hahpanováhe. Plural méhneo'o; Obviative mehno. means 'worm' or 'snake' in compounds, for example: mé'šeméhne worm (lit. hairy-serpent). heóvemé'šeméhne yellow caterpillar (PD). ho'éméhne earthworm. hesó'xeméhne blue racer (snake; lit. slippery-serpent). See: šé'šenovȯtse. Morph: /méhné/. Etym: *mo·hθe·wa ‘worm’. See: axe ‘land monster’; hahpanováhe. Category: monsters, animals.
mene2 na. water monster. pronounced as méhne by some speakers. Variant: méhné. Category: monsters, animals.