łéʼétsoh yiljaaʼí

Etymology

łéʼétsoh (“pack rat”) + y- (thematic) + ∅- (3rd person subject prefix) + -l- (classifier) + bijaaʼ (“ears”) +‎ -í (nominalizer), literally “it has ears like a pack rat”

Noun

łéʼétsoh yiljaaʼí

  1. buttercup

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 986
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