kănăne′skĭ—spider; also, from a fancied resemblance in appearance, a watch or clock; kănăne′skĭ amăyĕ′hĭ, the water spider.
Kăna′sta, Kănastûñ′yĭ—a traditional Cherokee settlement formerly on the headwaters of the French Broad river near the present Brevard, in Transylvania county, North Carolina. The meaning of the name is lost. A settlement called Cannostee or Cannastion is mentioned as existing on Hiwassee river in 1776. See [number 82] and notes.
kanâ′talu′hĭ—hominy cooked with walnut kernels.
Kana′tĭ— “Lucky Hunter”; a masculine name, sometimes abbreviated Kanat′. The word can not be analyzed, but is used as a third person habitual verbal form to mean “he is lucky, or successful, in hunting”; the opposite is uʻkwa′legû, “unlucky, or unsuccessful, in hunting.” See [number 3].
kanegwâ′tĭ—the water-moccasin snake.
Kănu′ga—also written Canuga; a Lower Cherokee settlement, apparently on the waters of Keowee river in South Carolina, destroyed in 1761; also a traditional settlement on Pigeon river, probably near the present Waynesville, in Haywood county, North Carolina. See [number 81] and notes. The name signifies “a scratcher,” a sort of bone-toothed comb with which ball-players are scratched upon their naked skin preliminary to applying the conjured medicine; de′tsinuga′skû, “I am scratching it.”
kănugû′ʻlă (abbreviated nugû′ʻla)—“scratcher,” a generic term for the blackberry, raspberry, and other brier bushes. Cf. Kănu′ga.
Kănu′gûʻlâyĭ, or Kănu′gûʻlûñ′yĭ—“Brier place,” from kănu′gû′ʻlâ, brier (cf. Kănu′ga); a Cherokee settlement formerly on Nantahala river, about the mouth of Briertown creek, in Macon county, North Carolina.
kănûñ′năwû′—pipe.
Kâsdu′yĭ—“Ashes place,” from kâsdu, ashes, and yĭ, the locative. A modern Cherokee name for the town of Asheville, in Buncombe county, North Carolina. The ancient name for the same site is Unta′kiyasti′yĭ, q.v.