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Navajo Indians
One of the largest of the Native American Tribes, they lived in the Southwest of the United States and Northern Mexico.
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How do you say thank you brother in Navajo?
To say Blessing (as from God) is bee'ak'ihojidlihii well I think. That's what it says in my Navajo dictionary.
To bless or make holy is: yissį́į́h. This is the imperfective.
From the stem -sį́į́h --to make holy
Navajo verbs are complicated for English speakers. There are lots of ways to conjugate that we do not do in English. You bless and they bless and we two bless are all different too.
nássį́į́h -iterative mode, wóssį́į́h --optative mode, yisį́į́ --perfective,
deessį́h --future mode
Shicheii hooghan yiyíísį́į́ --"grandfather blessed the hogan"
1--- tʼááłáʼí
2--- naaki
3--- tááʼ
4--- dį́į́ʼ
5--- ashdlaʼ
6--- hastą́ą́
7--- tsostsʼid
8--- tseebíí
9--- náhástʼéí
10--- neeznáá
How do you say evil in Navajo?
Hóchxǫ́ǫ́ -- the opposite of Hózhǫ́.
Hózhǫ́ is the central Navajo concept of beauty, peace, health, happiness, balance, order, symetry, goodness
Hóchxǫ́ǫ́'ji -- the Evilway ritual , a Navajo groups of rites to exorcise evil.
iiníziin --- evil or evil wishes, malevolence, witchery
doo yá'át'éeh da -- evil ( lit. -not good)
diné doo yá'ásáhxóonii-- evil man
diné doo yá'ádaashxoonii --evil men
doo yá'áníshshxǫ́ǫ da --------to be evil
binisdzin -- to wish him/her/it evil
What kind of money did the Navajo use?
U.S. money today. Before 1848 Mexican pesos were used and before that Spanish money. Before the 1600s they and all the people of the SW used trade goods. The word in Navajo for money is béeso which comes from Spanish, peso.
We know that there were long range trade routes that traded in valuable items. All the four Navajo sacred jewels that are associated each with a direction were trade items. To the east is white shell. The source of this was the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. To the south is turquoise. There were mines in southern New Mexico and Arizona. There were many long range turquoise trading routes some all the way to Mexico. There were trade routes for salt and shells to the Sea of Cortez. West is abalone and there were established trade routes to the Pacific for abalone coral and other shells. North is the obsidian or jet direction and that was a trade item as well. Other trade items to and from or across the southwest were macaw feathers, cotton, bison skins, copper, parrots, and quetzal feathers, pottery, jasper, corn, turkeys, blankets and cloth, captives, paint, basketry, dried meat, squash seeds, salt, and shells of all sorts.
What was the movie with the Navajo code during World War 2?
Windtalkers, alternately written as a noun clause- Wind Talkers- referred to verbal (indian language) code operators.
wóláchÃà is the word for "red ant" in Navajo.
The marks indicate high tone. Navajo is a tonal language and is not correct without them.
wólázhinà is "black ant".
What led to the declining numbers of the Navajo's?
When they were confined to Bosque Redondo there was a measles epidemic that killed about 1/3 the population. There were more epidemic in the 1890s. The Navajo contacted the Spanish in the 1500s and all the peoples of the Americas had huge losses in population at that time due to small pox, measles, flu, typhus, whooping cough and many others. We don't have records of those deaths for the Navajo. They continued to have very high rates of TB into the 20th century. 10% of the Navajo enlisted men in WWII had to be sent home with TB.
However the Navajo have fully recovered and increased from those losses and today there are more Navajo than it is thought there ever have been, the tribal membership is over 300,000.
What is the Navajo name for shine?
To shine (a light) is: adiníłdíín
To shine ( a polished surface) : bits'ádi'ńlíídor bízdílid or dah dichił
to shine (polish it) : bízdílidgo 'áshłééh
Warning navajo conjugates in very different ways than English so that "you two continually shine a light" would sound like a very different verb to an English speaker. The stem od to shine light is : łdíín
Béésh łigai ayóo bits'ádi'nídíín --- "The light really refects off silver"
What does the tribe name Navajo mean?
We call ourselves Dine' which translate to "The People" - most other tribes refer to themselves as this also
How do you spell eat in Navajo?
ashą́ -I eat
Íyą́ (You eat)
Ayą́ (He eats)
Iidą́ (We two eat)
Ohsą́ (You two eat)
Ayą́ (They two eat)
Da'iidą́ (We three, or more, eat)
Da'ohsą́ (You three, or more, eat)
Da'ayą́ (They three, or more, eat)
Example: Shí dóó Jerry bá'áłchíní éí Mary bighandi da'iidą́.
"Me and Jerry's kids (3 or more total) are eating at Mary's house"
But Navajo verbs are very complicated. To eat meat is ashgał, to eat berries or eggs is ashdeeł, to eat corn or candy is ash'aał and on and on.
The mark under the a means it is nasalized. The mark above means high tone. The mark between is a glottal stop. The l with a line is a unvoiced aspirated L.
How do you say trust in Navajo?
baa jóshłí --- means "to trust him/her" or "have confidence in him/her/it"
Iterative mode: ńjóshdliih
perfective: dziiséli
future mode: jiideeshłiił
optative mode: jóshłiih
(remember Navajo also conjugates the verb as to who is being spoken about. So, dzííníłí--- you trust, dzółí -- they trust, and so on)
also: dzólní
as in: "Díí hastiin t'áá baa dzólní" -- "this man is trusted"
doo baa jóshłí' 'át'ée da -- "to be untrustworthy"
What animals did the Navajo raise?
Since the 1540-1600 time period the Navajo have raised ( and continue too) sheep, goats, horses and had dogs for sheep herding. Some people have had cattle but they have never been as popular. Before that time period, they had dogs and perhaps domestic turkeys as did the neighboring Pueblo peoples.
What is the Navajo word for son?
'Azhé'é'-- is someone's father.
shizhé'é' -- is my father
nizhé'é' - your father
bizhé'é' --- his/her/it's father
hazhé'é' --- Fourth person (we don't have this in English) sort of like "0ne'e father"
yizhé'é' - third person direct object
nihizhé'é' --our father or your father
ałzhé'é' -- our mutual clan fathers
danihizhé'é' --the fathers of each of you.
and more....
The top is dome shaped. It is a free-standing laccolith that intruded into sedimentary layers and lifted up the overlying layers. The top is Dakota Sandstone from the Cretaceous. It is 10,388 feet high.
The Navajo name is: Naatsisʼáán (head of earth). It is also called : Tádídíín Dziil (pollen mountain)
What was Ricky Nelson known for saying with the word boy on the Ozzie and Harriet show?
" I don't mess around boy," Rick Nelson
What are the proper adjectives for Boston and Navajo?
Bostonian and Navajo are the proper adjectives for Boston and Navajo.
Like most native American languages Navajo has a complex system of personal pronouns that do not correspond exactly to English forms (English derives from mainly Germanic roots, so it is not surprising that they have nothing in common).
The phrase shi naashlnish (I am working) includes both a pronoun (shi) and an internal first person marker element (-sh-) to produce the meaning "I am the one doing this". It is clear from this that the verb must change form to agree with the pronoun, so for example "you are working" would be ni nanilnish (ni + -ni-).
In fact the story is far more complicated than this, but it gives you some idea of the way Navajo pronouns are applied.
What does shandiin mean in Navajo?
"Sháándíín" means ---Sun ray, sunbeam, ray of sunlightor sunlight.
Shá is one word for sun. shą́ą'jį is sunny side of a hill.
The more usual word for sun is: jóhonaaʼéí.
This can be analyzed to literally mean:
"the solid roundish object that moves around in space in the daytime"
