Wa′sitû′nă, Wa′sûñtû′nă (different dialectic forms)—a Cherokee known to the whites as Washington, the sole survivor of a Removal tragedy. See page [158]. The name denotes a hollow log (or other cylindrical object) lying on the ground at a distance; the root of the word is asi′ta, log, and the w prefixed makes it at a distance.
Wa′sulû′—a large red-brown moth which flies about the blossoming tobacco in the evening.
Watâ′gĭ (commonly written Watauga, also Watoga, Wattoogee, Whatoga, etc.)—a name occurring in two or more towns in the old Cherokee country; one was an important settlement on Watauga creek of Little Tennessee river, a few miles below Franklin, in Macon county, Tennessee; another was traditionally located at Watauga Old Fields, about the present Elizabethton, on Watauga river, in Carter county, Tennessee. See page [21]. The meaning of the name is lost.
Watauga—see Watâ′gĭ.
Watsi′să—a prominent old Cherokee, known to the whites as Wachesa, a name which cannot be translated, who formerly lived on lower Beaverdam creek of Hiwassee river, below Murphy, in Cherokee county, North Carolina. From the fact that the Unicoi turnpike passed near his place it was locally known as the Wachesa trail.
waʻya—wolf; the name is an onomatope, intended as an imitation of the animal’s howl; cf. the Creek name, yähä.
Waʻyâ′hĭ—“Wolf place,” i. e. place of the Wolf clan; the form Ani′-Waʻyâ′hĭ is not used. Wolftown settlement on upper Soco creek, on the East Cherokee reservation, in Jackson county, North Carolina.
Waya gap—see Aʻtâhi′ta.
Wayeh—see Wâyĭ.
Wâyî—“Pigeon”; the modern Cherokee name for Big Pigeon river in western North Carolina; probably a translation of the English name. It appears also as Wayeh.