atokoli

Chickasaw

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw atokoli. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

atokoli

1. To choose.
2. To specify, to detail.
3. To prove.
4. To elect, to nominate.
5. To appoint, to assign, to certify, to commission.

References

• Jesse J. Humes; Vinnie May (James) Humes, “atokoli”, in A Chickasaw Dictionary

Choctaw

Etymology

Cognate with Chickasaw atokoli. Compare also Creek hopokátē. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

atokoli

1. To select, to choose.
2. To appoint, to assign.
3. (politics) To vote, to elect.

References

• “atokoli”, in The Choctaw Dictionary, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma