chíisa

Crow

Etymology

From Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *cí•ta, from Proto-Siouan *(i-)sį́•te.

Noun

chíisa

1. tail

Derived terms

• chíisdeaxa
• chíiskisshi
• chíisuhpischileaxa

References

• Lowie, Robert H. (1960) Crow Word Lists: Crow-English and English-Crow Vocabularies, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 350: “tsí·s(e)”
• Reed, Jr., George (1974 September) Dictionary of the Crow Language‎^[1], Massachusetts Institute of Technology, page 45