There are terms which occur in all dialects in the same or nearly the same form, as hási _sun_, ítchu, íssi _deer_, ófi, ífa _dog_, the terms for _chief, black, yellow, bird, snake, buffalo, turtle, fox_ (also in Cheroki: tsu'hlá), the numerals and the personal pronouns; they must, therefore, have been once the common property of the still undivided, primordial tribe. The fact that the words for _chief_ (míki, míngo, míko), for holá'hta, and for _warrior_ (táska, taskáya), agree in all dialects, points to the fact that when the tribes separated they lived under similar social conditions which they have kept up ever since. The terms for _maize_ disagree but apparently, and seem to be reducible to one radix, atch or ash; the terms for _dog_ agree in all dialects--hence, the Maskoki tribes planted maize and kept dogs before, probably many centuries before they separated; and the term ífa went over from them to the Timucua. The word for _buffalo_, yánase, is the same in all dialects, and was probably obtained from the North, since the term occurs in Cheroki also (yá'hsa in Eastern Cheroki). The name for _salt_, hápi, a mineral which had a sacrificial importance, is found also in Yuchi in the form tápi, but Creek has ók-tchanua, Hitchiti: ok-tcháhane. The term for _tobacco_ agrees in all divisions of the stock (haktchúmma), except in the Creek branch, where it is called hítchi, hídshi. This weed is said to have received its Maskoki names from a similarity of the top of the green plant with the phallus, which is called in Alibamu and Hitchiti: óktchi or áktchi.