Tó Bééhwíisganí

Etymology

tó (“water”) + bi- (3rd person indirect object prefix) + -ná- (“around”) + -ho- (“space, area, things”) + sigan (“it is dry”) + -í (nominalizer), literally “area that is dry around the water”

Proper noun

Tó Bééhwíisganí

  1. Pinedale (an unincorporated community in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States).

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 706.
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