hodai

See also: hōdai and -hōdai

Japanese

Romanization

hodai

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ほだい

O'odham

Etymology

From Proto-Tepiman *hodai (“stone”),[1] from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *soya (“rock”).[2]

Noun

hodai (plural hohodai, distributive hohhodai)

  1. (geology) rock, stone
    Smu'ij g hohodai 'ama'i.
    There are lots of rocks down there.
  2. cement
    Ñki: 'am 'ant g hodai 'am o vakut.
    I'll put a cement floor in my house.
  3. (religion, shamanism) charmstone used by medicine men

Derived terms

  • hodai-cu'i (“mortar powder, dry cement”)
  • hodai-cu'i-va꞉ga (“wet cement, mortar”)
  • hodai-cu'i-va꞉gaikuḍ (“cement mixer”)
  • hodai-cu'i-ṣa꞉mt (“cement block”)
  • hodai-cu'ikuḍ (“crusher, crushing machine”)
  • hodai-tonḍam (“crystal (used by medicine men)”)
  • hodai-vaika (“cement ditch”)
  • hodai-vakus (“cement floor”)
  • hodaicud (“to turn into stone”)
  • hodaig (“to be full of rocks”)
  • hodaiga (“to have a charm stone”)
  • toñ-hodai (“lime, hot cement”)

Verb

hodai (stative)

  1. to be a stone, rock

References

  1. ^ Burton William Bascom, Jr. (1965), “69. *hoˈdai 'stone,'”, in Proto-Tepiman (Tepehuan-Piman) (Thesis), Seattle, Washington: University of Washington, 66-5811, page 135
  2. ^ Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1829. *soya ‘rock’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 297
  • Mathiot, Madeleine (2013), Tohono 'O'odham–English Dictionary‎[2], volume I, archived from the original on 22 November 2019, pages 275–6
  • Saxton, Dean; Saxton, Lucille; Enos, Susie (1983), “hothai”, in Dictionary: Tohono Oʼodham/Pima to English, English to Tohono Oʼodham/Pima, 2nd edition, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 24
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