waʻdi—paint, especially red paint.
waʻdige-askaʻli—“his head (is) brown,” i. e., “brown-head”; from wadigeʻi, brown, brown-red, and askaʻli, head; the copperhead snake.
Wadiʻyahi—a feminine name of doubtful etymology. An expert basket-making woman among the East Cherokee, who died in 1895. She was known to the whites as Mrs. Bushyhead.
Wafford—see Tsuskwanunʻta.
Waʻginsi—the name of an eddy at the junction of Little Tennessee and the main Tennessee rivers at Lenoir, in London county, Tenn. The town is now known to the Cherokee by the same name, of which the meaning is lost.
waguliʻ—whippoorwill; the name is an onomatope; the Delaware name is wekolis.
Wahnenauhi—see Waniʻnahi.
waʻhuhuʻ—the screech-owl.
waʻka—cow; from the Spanish vaca, as is also the Creek waga and the Arapaho wakuch.
walaʻsi—the common green frog.