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Yuchi
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Yu·chi  (ych)
n. pl. Yuchi or Yu·chis
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee, politically included in the Creek confederacy since the 19th century.
b. A member of this people.
2. The language of the Yuchi.
[Probably Cherokee yutsi.]
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Meigs County Euchee 11 1610EST 1615EST The highway department reported a few trees downed by thunderstorm winds across the northwest portion of the county.
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In the Amerindian language Euchee (formerly called Yuchi), the 'sit', 'stand', and 'lie' morpheme s have given rise to a three-way kind of gender system, in so far as they occur as articles with inanimate nouns, subclassifying the nouns into one of three noun classes (cf.
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It was the native Euchee Indians, however, who gave it a name, Tybee meaning "salt" in their tongue.
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