Tsézhįįh Deezhlį́

Etymology

tsé (“stone”) + -zhin (“black”), from the root -ZHĮ́Į́ʼ (“to be black”) + -iih (“into”) + deezhlį́ (“it starts to flow”)

Proper noun

Tsézhįįh Deezhlį́

  1. Black Rock (a census-designated place 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 732.
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