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The word for yam in Navajo is: nahooyéí

or : nimasii łikaní (seet potato).

Potato is nimasii

The marks over vowels make those high tone. Double vowels are held for longer not a different sound. "ei" sounds like ay as in bay. The l with a line through it is an unvoiced aspirated L sound, there is a similar one in Welsh.

There is no "meaning" in Navajo. It was not native to North America. True yams are from Africa and Asia, what is often called yams are sweet potatoes and are from Central and South America originally ( orange and sweet and in the morning glory family).

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