This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RILEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/953.2 Message Board Post: Does anyone know the translation of Pis Ah Ho Min Ah? She/he was somehow related to Riley in Arkansas, possibly only through assignment of land? Thought Cherokee but they said not cherokee name. elaine

Out of context, it is difficult to tell the exact meaning. However, "pisa" as a noun means "view" or "viewer" or "gazer." There are other possibilities as well. "Ho-min-ah" looks like a combination of "homi" (sour) and "na" (not). Roughly it might be translated "not sour the view." George Ann --- kinseeker@charter.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Surnames: RILEY > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/953.2 > > Message Board Post: > > Does anyone know the translation of Pis Ah Ho Min > Ah? > She/he was somehow related to Riley in Arkansas, > possibly only through assignment of land? Thought > Cherokee but they said not cherokee name. elaine > > > ==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > To subscribe to CHAHTA-L list discussions on > history, culture, language. Send msg. to > CHAHTA-L-request@rootsweb.com > Put "one" word in "body" of message:... "subscribe" > without the quotes, nothing in the subject line, > turn off signatures. > Nothing in the subject line... Turn off > signatures....... > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com