How to Say "Cool" in Cherokee

ᎤᏴᏜ

uyvdla/ȕhjə̃̀ːd͡ɮa/

The Cherokee word for cool (as in temperature) is ᎤᏴᏜ (uyvdla).

This adjective is used to describe something that has a slightly low temperature.

Meaning: having a slightly low temperature (adj)

How do you pronounce it?

The romanization is uyvdla. The IPA is /ȕhjə̃̀ːdɮa/.

The written form of ᎤᏴᏜ uses a syllabary created by Sequoyah, who was not literate in English when he designed the system to give his people a written language.
Cherokee is a polysynthetic language, meaning a single word like ᎤᏴᏜ can be modified with prefixes and suffixes to change its meaning entirely without adding new words.
The sound of the letter Ꮬ in ᎤᏴᏜ represents a voiced lateral fricative, a sound that does not exist in English and involves air flowing around the sides of the tongue.

Two people are discussing the weather outside.

A

ᎤᏴᏜ ᎢᏳᏍᏗ ᎤᏓᏓ ᎾᎯᎢ, ᎥᏝ Ꭺ?
uvsla iyusdi udada nahi, vtla go?
It is cool today, isn't it?
B

Ꭺ, ᎤᏴᏜ ᎢᏳᏍᏗ ᎤᏓᏓ.
go, uvsla iyusdi udada.
Yes, it is cool.
A

ᎤᏓᏓ ᎢᎩᏓ ᎾᎯᎢ.
udada igida nahi.
The wind is nice today.
B

ᎾᏍᎩ ᎢᏳᏍᏗ.
nasgi iyusdi.
It is like that.

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