Uʻtsala—“Lichen”; another form of utsaleʻta. A Cherokee chief of Removal period in 1838.
utsaleʻta—lichen, literally “pot scrapings,” from a fancied resemblance.
utsaʻnatiʻ—rattlesnake; the name is of doubtful etymology, but is said to refer to the rattle.
Utsaʻnatiʻyi—“Rattlesnake place.” Rattlesnake springs, about two miles south from Charlestown, Bradley county, Tenn.
utsetʻsti—“he grins” (habitually). See siʻkwa utsetʻsti.
utsiʻ—her (his) mother; etsiʻ, agitsiʻ, my mother.
Utsiʻdsataʻ—“Corn-tassel,” “Thistle-head,” etc. It is used as a masculine name, and was probably the Cherokee name of the chief of Revolutionary times, known as “Old Tassel.”
utsuʻgi—the tufted titmouse (Parus bicolor); also called uʻstutiʻ, “topnot, or tip,” on account of its crest.
uʻtsutiʻ—fish. Also, many.
Uwagaʻhi (commonly written Ocoee)—“Apricot place,” from uwaʻga, the “apricot vines,” or “maypop,” (Passiflora incarnata), and hi, locative. A former important settlement on Ocowe river, near its junction with Hiwassee, about the present Benton, in Polk county, Tenn.