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A growing, source-led word study. These are contextual glosses for attested forms, not a complete dictionary. The collection has not yet had fluent-speaker review; spelling attestation and source comparisons do not establish that every gloss is linguistically correct. A form may have a different meaning in another context. The spelling guide is mechanical transliteration; it does not encode full pronunciation, tone, or vowel length. Separate pronunciation references are available for 7 of 107 entries. Unsourced entries stay unmarked, with sound information explicitly unspecified.

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ᏂᎦᎥ

Spelling guide: ni-ga-v

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

all

Historical passage gloss. Contextual gloss from the phrase rendered all things; not a complete dictionary definition.

Attested in John 1:3 · Source

ᎤᏁᎳᏅᎯ

Spelling guide: u-ne-la-nv-hi

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

God

Word-list corroborated. Religious meaning in this Christian passage; not a statement about all Cherokee beliefs.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in John 1:1 · Source

ᎧᏃᎮᏛ

Spelling guide: ka-no-he-dv

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

Word

Historical passage gloss. Capitalized Word is the meaning in this passage, not a universal one-word translation.

Attested in John 1:1 · Source

ᎬᏂᏛ

Spelling guide: gv-ni-dv

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

life

Historical passage gloss. Historical passage-specific gloss; other sources or contexts may use other forms.

Attested in John 1:4 · Source

ᎤᏓᏙᎵᏣᏛ

Spelling guide: u-da-do-li-tsa-dv

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

grace

Historical passage gloss. Meaning aligned to the historical parallel passage; not independently reviewed by a fluent speaker.

Attested in John 1:14 · Source

ᏚᏳᎪᏛᎢ

Spelling guide: du-yu-go-dv-i

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

truth

Historical passage gloss. Meaning aligned to the historical parallel passage; preserve the final character in this attested form.

Attested in John 1:14 · Source

ᎠᎦᏴᎵᎨ

Spelling guide: a-ga-yv-li-ge

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

Father

Historical passage gloss. Capitalized theological use in the cited passage, not a form to substitute freely in ordinary family conversation.

Attested in John 1:18 · Source

ᎤᏪᏥ

Spelling guide: u-we-tsi

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

his child; Son here

Word-list corroborated. The form is relational, not simply an unpossessed word for son. The passage selects the sense Son.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in John 1:18 · Source

ᎠᏙᎴᎰᏍᎩ

Spelling guide: a-do-le-ho-s-gi

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

prophet

Historical passage gloss. Historical passage-specific gloss; not a claim about traditional Cherokee religious roles.

Attested in John 1:21 · Source

ᎤᎬᏫᏳᎯ

Spelling guide: u-gv-wi-yu-hi

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

Lord / ruler

Word-list corroborated. Lord is the passage meaning; the word list corroborates ruler-related senses.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in John 1:23 · Source

ᎠᏫ-ᎠᎩᎾ

Spelling guide: a-wi a-gi-na

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

lamb

Historical passage gloss. Preserve the complete hyphenated expression; do not gloss either component as lamb by itself.

Attested in John 1:29 · Source

ᏗᏓᎴᏂᏍᎬᎢ

Spelling guide: di-da-le-ni-s-gv-i

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

in the beginning

Historical passage gloss. Gloss covers this historical form in its sentence, not a bare English noun.

Attested in John 1:2 · Source

ᏗᎾᏓᏅᏟ

Spelling guide: di-na-da-nv-tli

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

brother in this passage

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Kinship expressions are relational. This is not a general-purpose replacement for every English use of brother.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 5:22 · Source

ᏦᏍᏓᏓᏅᏟ

Spelling guide: tso-s-da-da-nv-tli

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

my brother

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Relational form as used in this passage; kinship vocabulary depends on participants.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 18:21 · Source

ᎤᏁᏥ

Spelling guide: u-ne-tsi

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

their child (a pair)

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. The relational form refers to two parents in this passage.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Luke 1:7 · Source

ᎢᎦ

Spelling guide: i-ga

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

day

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Other contexts connect this written form with light. The gloss here follows the cited verse.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 6:11 · Source

ᎪᎯᏳᏗ

Spelling guide: go-hi-yu-di

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

faith

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. The gloss follows the cited passage; do not treat this as a verb conjugation.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 8:10 · Source

ᎡᏙᏓ

Spelling guide: e-do-da

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

my father

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Relational meaning in this verse; the form also appears in direct address.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 8:21 · Source

ᎣᎩᏙᏓ

Spelling guide: o-gi-do-da

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

our father

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. This is an exclusive our form: the person addressed is not included among the children.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 6:9 · Source

ᎠᏥᎸ

Spelling guide: a-tsi-lv

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

fire

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Historical written form. Do not identify a meaning solely from spelling outside its sentence.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 3:11 · Source

ᎤᎾᏫ

Spelling guide: u-na-wi

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

heart

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. The passage refers to a person’s heart; this is a contextual reading gloss.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Luke 6:45 · Source

ᎠᏓᏁᎸᎢ

Spelling guide: a-da-ne-lv-i

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

house

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Another attested written form used for house in this passage; not a claim of full interchangeability.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 13:1 · Source

ᎠᏓᎨᏳᏗ

Spelling guide: a-da-ge-yu-di

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

love

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Reading gloss for the expression in this verse, not a command to love.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Romans 12:9 · Source

ᎤᏂᏃᏕᎾ

Spelling guide: u-ni-no-de-na

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

sheep (plural)

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Appears in the fuller expression ᎠᏫ ᎤᏂᏃᏕᎾ in this verse.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 9:36 · Source

ᎤᏢᎦ

Spelling guide: u-tlv-ga

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

he / she is sick

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Inflected form, not a bare adjective or a conjugation template.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in John 11:3 · Source

ᎥᎩᏙ

Spelling guide: v-gi-do

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

my sister

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Relational form in this passage; not a universal kinship label.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Mark 3:35 · Source

ᎠᎹᏱ

Spelling guide: a-ma-yi

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

in / into water

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Locative form. It occurs within a larger expression about perishing in the water.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 8:32 · Source

ᎦᏃᎸᎥᏍᎬ

Spelling guide: ga-no-lv-v-s-gv

Tone and vowel length: not specified in this entry.

wind / blowing

Word-list corroborated; checked in historical passage. Passage-related form; not a claim that all words glossed wind are interchangeable.

Cherokee Nation-hosted lexical reference

Attested in Matthew 14:30 · Source

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