bááh atsįʼ bił ałchʼįʼ ádaatʼéhígíí

Etymology

bááh (“bread”) + atsįʼ (“meat”) + bił (“in it”) + ałchʼįʼ (“toward one another”) + ádaatʼé (“they are”) +‎ -ígíí (nominalizer)

Noun

bááh atsįʼ bił ałchʼįʼ ádaatʼéhígíí

  1. sandwich

References

  • Robert W. Young and William Morgan, Sr. (1987), The Navajo Language. A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, page 148.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.