The name of the town may be explained as: "jumping men, _jumpers_," from Cr. tāská-is, tā′skäs _I jump_ (tulúp-kalis in Hitchiti); or be considered an abbreviated form of táskialgi _warriors_; cf. taskáya _citizen_ (Creek), and Hawkins, Sketch, p. 70. But since the town formerly spoke another language, it is, in view of the frequency of Cheroki names in the Creek country, appropriate to regard Taskígi as linguistically identical with "Toskegee," a Cheroki town on Great Tennessee river, southern shore, mentioned by several authors, and appearing on Lieutenant H. Timberlake's map in his Memoir, reproduced in Jefferys' Topography (Atlas) of North America, dated March, 1762.