ᎤᏅᏗ
unvdi
The Cherokee word for milk is ᎤᏅᏗ (unvdi).
ᎤᏅᏗ refers to milk as a liquid.
Meaning: liquid (noun)
How do you pronounce it?
The romanization is unvdi.
Did you know?
- The written form of ᎤᏅᏗ uses a syllabary invented by Sequoyah, which allows each character to represent a full syllable rather than a single letter.
- Traditionally, the Cherokee people did not domesticate dairy animals, so the word ᎤᏅᏗ evolved to include livestock milk after European contact.
- Because Cherokee is a polysynthetic language, a single word can sometimes be expanded to mean 'the milk that was spilled' or 'the milk being poured'.
Example sentences for Cherokee are not verified yet.
Sources
- Wiktionary, “milk” translations and entries ᎤᏅᏗ, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
