The name Cofita-chiqui seems to prove by itself that these towns were inhabited by Yuchi Indians; for it contains kowita, the Yuchi term for _Indian_, and apparently "Indian of our own tribe." This term appears in all the vocabularies: kawíta, _man, male_; kohwita, ko-ita, plural kohino'h, _man_; kota, _man_, contracted from kow'ta, kowita; also in compounds: kowĕt-ten-chōō, _chief_; kohítta makinnung, _chief of a people_. The terms for the parts of the human body all begin with ko-. The second part of the name, -chiqui, is a term foreign to Yuchi, but found in all the dialects of Maskoki in the function of _house_, _dwelling_, (tchúku, tchóko, and in the eastern or Apalachian dialects, tchíki) and has to be rendered here in the collective sense of _houses, town_. Local names to be compared with Cofitachiqui are: Cofachi, further south, and Acapachiqui, a tract of land near Apalache.