chichká

Crow

Greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) in Illinois.

Etymology

From Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *cí•cka, from Proto-Siouan *sí•ka.

Noun

chichká

1. prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)

Derived terms

• chichkisáa

References

• Lowie, Robert H. (1960) Crow Word Lists: Crow-English and English-Crow Vocabularies, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 168: “tsí·tsgye, tsítskye”
• Reed, Jr., George (1974 September) Dictionary of the Crow Language‎^[1], Massachusetts Institute of Technology, page 44