gûñ′năge′ĭ (or gûñ′năge)—black.
Gûñnĕ′hĭ—see Nûñnĕ′hĭ.
Gûñskăli′skĭ—a masculine personal name of uncertain etymology.
Gunters landing, Guntersville—see Ku′să-Nûñnâ′hĭ.
Gûn-tsuskwa′ʻlĭ—“Short arrows,” from gûnĭ′, arrow, and tsuskwa′ʻlĭ, plural of uskwa′ʻlĭ, short; a traditional western tribe. See [number 105].
Gûnûñ′daʻle′gĭ—see Nûñnâ′hĭ-dihĭ′.
Gustĭ′—a traditional Cherokee settlement on Tennessee river, near Kingston, Roane county, Tennessee. See [number 79]. The name cannot be analyzed. Wafford thought it a Cherokee attempt at “Kingston,” but it seems rather to be aboriginal.
Gu′wisguwĭ′—The Cherokee name for the chief John Ross and for the district named in his honor, commonly spelled Cooweescoowee. Properly an onomatope for a large bird said to have been seen formerly at infrequent intervals in the old Cherokee country, accompanying the migratory wild geese, and described as resembling a large snipe, with yellow legs and unwebbed feet. In boyhood John Ross was known as Tsan′-usdi′, “Little John.”
Gwalʻgâ′hĭ—“Frog place,” from gwalʻgû, a variety of frog, and hĭ, locative. A place on Hiwassee river, just above the junction of Peachtree creek, near Murphy, in Cherokee county, North Carolina; about 1755 the site of a village of refugee Natchez, and later of a Baptist mission.
gwehe′!—a cricket’s cry. See [number 119].