wa-jhi-ni (waǰíni)
white people, white race	Speaker - Odestine McWatters
	Speaker - Mary Lane Redeagle
	Speaker - Maude Supernaw

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wa-jhi-ni (waǰíni)

American; derived from, Virginia (RR-Quapaw)

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wa-tshi-ni (wâ-tci-ni)

Virginian, white man (JH-Quapaw)

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White man didn't like me.
wa-jhi-ni  aⁿ-ka-shi-ka  (waǰíni ąkką́šiká)	Speaker - Maude Supernaw
white people - he, she, they hate me

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He's a white man.
wa-jhi-ni  koi  (waǰíni kói)	Speaker - Maude Supernaw
white people - there

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You white people go home and us Indians dance all night
(when the white people go home, I want just us Indians to dance).	Speaker - Maude Supernaw
wa-jhi-ni  kde  ta  zho-zhi-te  e-naⁿ  o-zha-wi  koⁿ-bda
(waǰíni kdé taa žožítte éną óžawi kkǫbdá)
white people - go home - when, future - Indians - only - dance - plural - I want

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Dhegiha Language Family Comparison

• wa-jhi-ni (waǰíni) - American; derived from, Virginia (RR-Quapaw)
• wa-tshi-ni (wâ-tci-ni) - Virginian, white man (JH-Quapaw)
• wa-dsi-ne (wá-dsi-ni) - a disease, a malady (FL-Osage)
• wa-tsʰi-ni (wácʰini), wa-tsi-ni-e (wácinie) - probably from "Virginia" which may have been used to mean "white man". Perhaps venereal disease was later associated with wa-tsʰu (wacʰú) 'copulate' and thus may have substituted tsʰ (ch) for ts (c), giving the variants wa-tsʰi-ni (wácʰini) and wa-tsi-ni-e (wácinie), Robert Rankin, personal communication. Additionally, wa-tsi-ni-e (wácinie) may contain or be influenced by ni-e (níe) 'hurt' (CQ-Osage)
• wa-ji-ne (wáji ne) - disease, a malady (Kanza)