What does Maya mean in Navajo?

Answer 1

Maya does not mean anything in Navajo. These ideas below are trying to find a similar sound in the middle of a phrase. It doesn't really make sense.

In Navajo you cannot say "ma" and have it mean mother without it being in the possessive. It is one of a category of words that must always be in the possessive to be grammatical. Also, it must be high tone to mean anything. Thus : shimá, nimá, bimá, nihimá, yimá, amá, hamá, dahinimá and many more but NO "ma".

Maya in Hebrew means "spring" or "brook". In Navajo that would be tó or tó biyáázh or bikooh or tó ńlíní. Those however are not Navajo names. It means illusion in Buddhist thought. Perhaps "mirage" might be similar: hadahoneestiin or hadahoneeyánígíí. , these are not names either, though. In Greek it refers to one of the Pleiades. The Pleiades in Navajo is Dilyéhé. They were used to measure time at night especially during ceremonies. Again, not a name for a person.

Maya means "the mother is/went some where,"

Ma- mom

ya- went/is going

nlee'di bimá 'ya

(over there there mom went)

could possibly means "for the mother,"

Ma- mamma

ya- for

Bi ma'ya ni'ja.

(for it's [male or female] mother it brought [object or noun.]