ᏥᏌ
tsisa
The name Jesus is translated into Cherokee as ᏥᏌ (tsisa).
ᏥᏌ is used as the proper name for the religious figure Jesus.
Meaning: religious figure (name)
How do you pronounce it?
tsisa
Did you know?
- Many traditional Cherokee spiritual terms focus on balance and harmony, making the specific linguistic introduction of ᏥᏌ a marker of cultural shift.
- In Cherokee culture, the introduction of ᏥᏌ is closely tied to the work of early missionaries who translated the New Testament into the Cherokee syllabary.
- Cherokee is a polysynthetic language, but proper names like ᏥᏌ usually remain static and do not take the complex prefixes and suffixes typical of Cherokee verbs.
Example sentences for Cherokee are not verified yet.
Sources
- Wiktionary, “Jesus” translations and entries ᏥᏌ, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
