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Diné is the Navajo language word for "person" or man". Dine'é is plural, tribe, clan or people.
Navajo language is: Diné bizaad. Navajo land is: Diné bikéyah.
Diné Diyinii means "Holy People" -- Navajo spiritual beings.
Nihookáá' Dine'é --- "the earth surface people", the people on earth.
The i is pronounced like in English "bit". The e is high tone so the word goes low to high. Navajo is a tonal language. The mark is not a stress or accent mark. The e is a short sound like in "met" not drawn out as in "neigh"
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∙ 15y agoIt means "the people". It's the word Navajo use for themselves. . . .
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What does the Spanish word Navajo mean?
The word Navajo does not come from Spanish. The Spanish learned it in the middle 1500s when they were asking Pueblo Tewa speakers names of the the different Apache related groups. They were told the Dine' were the "Apache of the wide or river bottom fields". "Navahu'u" is Tewa for "farm fields in a valley". Navajo is how the Spanish then spelled it. The Navajo language is related to other Apache languages about the same as Italian is to Spanish or Portuguese. The word Apache is thought to come from the Zuni language word for "enemy" or "stranger" Some other Apache groups were the Jicarilla ("little basket") and Mescalero ( mescal was a food staple) Apache.
What does the word Navajo mean?
'enemies with the cultivated lands in arroyos'The word Navajo is derived from Spanish hearing of a Tewa Indian word "navahu'u" or "na-ba-hu-u " meaning wide or river bottom fields. The Spanish were trying to tell apart the different Apache related groups."Apache " is thought to come from Zuni for "enemy". The Tewa were saying that the people over towards where Farmington NM is now were the Apache group who grew corn in river bottom land. The others ate Mescal- Mescalero Apache, or made little baskets- Jicarilla Apache. They were "Navajo de Apache".The idea that it means knife or thief has been thoroughly debunked.
What is the term medicine man in the Navajo Crow and Apache language?
In Navajo it is Hataałii. It is sort of pronounced like: hataathli. It means chanter or singer. He is sort of a combination of Priest, healer and professor of philosophy
What does the term yokahey in apache mean?
Yokahey is most likely a Pan-Indian term, with the closest meaning being 'let's dance'.
What is the Navajo word for turquoise?
In Navajo the term for silver is béésh łigaii.
What are the indigenous people who initially occupied the Americas described as?
The people in Canada prefer the term First Nations. In the United States, some prefer American Indian and some prefer native Anmerica and some prefer the name of their tribal group. For example, many Navajo say: I'm not Indian, I'm Navajo or I'm Dine'.
What is the navajo word for navajo?
The correct Navajo name for themselves is Diné, but they now also use the term Naabeehó.
What is the Navajo word for chocolate?
The Navajo term for fried bread is dahdiniilghaazh.
How did Utah received its name?
The Navajo Indians were referred to by the Apache as "Yuttahih" meaning "one that is higher up." Europeans misunderstood this term to refer to the tribes living higher in the mountains than the Navajo, the Utes, and the territory was called the land of the Utes, Utah. (NETSTATE) For the source and more detailed information concerning your request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below this answer box.
What is the Navajo word for kitchen?
The Navajo term means "food room": ch'iiyáán áł'įįgone'or : ch'iiyáán 'ál'íní góneor: ch'iiyáán 'ál'į́į́gi
How do you say friend in Apache?
The Western Apache word for friend is "ash" I don't know the Eastern Apache term for friend, though. --Chado2423
Why are apache homes called wickiups?
wikiup is another term for wigwam
