Red Clay—see Elawaʻdiyi.
Reid, Jesse—see Tseʻsi-Skaʻtsi.
Ridge, Major John—see Nunnaʻhi-dihiʻ.
Ross, John—see Guʻwisguwiʻ.
Ross' Landing—see Tsatanuʻgi.
Sadayiʻ—a feminine name, the proper name of the woman known to the whites as Annie Ax; it cannot be translated.
Sagwaʻhi, or Sagwunʻyi—“One place,” from saʻgwu, one, and hi or yi, locative. Soco creek of Oconaluftee river, on the East Cherokee reservation, in Jackson county, N. C. No satisfactory reason is given for the name, which has its parallel in Tsaskaʻhi, “Thirty place,” a local name in Cherokee county, N. C.
saʻgwaltʻ—horse; from asagwalihu, a pack or burden, asagwal luʻ; “there is a pack on him.”
saʻgwali diguʻlanahiʻta—mule; literally “long-eared horse,” from saʻgwali, horse, and diguʻlanahiʻta, q. v.
saikwaʻyi—bear-grass (Erynigium) also the greensnake, on account of a fancied resemblance; the name of a former Cherokee settlement on Sallacoa creek of Coosawatee river, in Gordon county, Ga.