hashtłʼish

Etymology

Compare Chipewyan hatłʼés, Tsuut'ina gútłʼìs. Young & Morgan (1992) identify it as potentially being from the verbal root -TŁʼIIZH (“to be blue, green”).

Noun

hashtłʼish

  1. mud
  2. mire

Derived terms

References

  • Young, Robert; Morgan, William; Midgette, Sally (1992), Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 585
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